Archive : Plays

Now entering its eleventh year, Short+Sweet Sydney is the biggest festival of ten minute theatre in the world! This year I didn’t make it into the Sydney Top 100 but got a spot in the Wildcards with my play “Between a Rock and a Hard Place”, which won People’s Choice in Crash Test Drama back...

Best Drama Award! At Brisbane Short and Sweet Festival I’m really rather happy that my short play ‘Sock’ took the ‘Best Drama’ award at this years Brisbane Short and Sweet Festival. After years plugging away at Short and Sweet, I’ve finally bloody won something!! The play was directed by...

INTIMATELY MOVING – from 5th November 2011 at The Pad Play With Your Shorts presents. A weekly series of five short plays presented as moved readings, written by Australian contemporary playwrights, all of different themes and genres, entitled: Stick that in your pad and play it. This unique theatre...

From stage to film – The story of Bondi Dreaming Every once in a while you see a play and think, ‘hmm, that was something special’. It genuinely touches you and leaves a lasting impression. So it was with Bondi Dreaming when I first saw it at Newtown Theatre. I’d been lucky enough to read an...

Elise Fabris (Best Actress – ‘Doing it for the Penguins’, Sydney Short+Sweet ) Someone once wrote that it’s harder to make someone laugh than cry. I’m not sure whom. Perhaps it was me? But writing comedy is a tricky bugger, it has to be said. Black comedy is my favourite genre and it’s a...

They say the best things in life are free and this couldn’t be more true than with these excellent Short+Sweet workshops. Budding actors, writers and directors can register to attend a series of fabulous workshops given by people in the know! Wish I could attend.   Free Workshops Short+Sweet...

Pete Malicki is Literary Manager of Short+Sweet’s theatre festivals worldwide and the Festival Director of Short+Sweet Sydney. As a writer, Pete has had plays performed in ten S+S festivals and made it to two Gala Finals, winning Best Drama in Brisbane 2010 for The Devil’s Aftershave. This...