I’ve just spent a great couple of nights at Short and Sweet Week 6 in Newtown. Eleven plays were up with mine in the eleventh spot.

The night was a real mixed bag as always but I reckon that, generally, there was higher standard this year than any I’ve previously attended.

Personal favourites included: Diagnosis by B.C. Thompson and OCDs R US.com by Adele Vuko, both of which examined the madness of modern living and our urge for a prescribed solution. Mr & Mrs Metcalfe Love the Music of Elton John by Frank Legget was well acted and moving and I liked The Petrified Book by Carol Dance just for it’s ‘outthereness’ and Sandra Kerrs performance.

The Crush team did a great job, bringing the script to life in quite a different way from the recent Crash Test performance. Night two really rocked and the audience (thankfully) laughed in all the right places.

With such firm and fruity competition it’s going to be a tough week to win, but it’s the taking part and the showing off to your friends that counts right?

Thanks to everyone who came along. I REALLY appreciated it and thanks to my fabulously sexy actors and director.

A few words from Alex Broun the Top Sausage at Short and Sweet:

“The night finishes appropriately with a new play by one of Short+Sweet’s most popular playwrights Kate Toon’s Crush, directed by Catherine Hollyman.

Alex (the vivacious Niki Simpson) is the perfect PA, she loves her boss Dan (recent NIDA grad, the debonair Don Christopher). Loves him so much she wants to lick him and bite him and rip off his underwear with her teeth! A sometimes creepy comedy about office obsession which had the audience literally rolling in the aisles.”

And a picture of Niki doing her thang on the desk.