Short+Sweet (originally known as Short & Sweet) is a multi-form arts platform presenting festivals in theatre, dance, music-theatre, comedy and cabaret across Australia and Asia. Short+Sweet’s vision statement is: a more creative world ten minutes at a time. The flagship festival is Short+Sweet Theatre Sydney, the largest ten-minute play festival in the world.
Short+Sweet Theatre was founded at the Newtown Theatre in Sydney, Australia in January 2002 by Mark Cleary, beginning with the first ever Short+Sweet Theatre festival. Festivals are now held across the globe. Short+Sweet Theatre Sydney is now the largest ten-minute theatre festival in the world, with around 180 new plays being produced every season.
There are many unique elements to this festival, some of which are, a strict time-limit, limit of one play per playwright, one play per director and two plays per actor, people’s choice voting and the competitive aspect of the festival where plays are chosen from each week to progress to the Gala Finals.
Short+Sweet South India started as Short+Sweet Chennai in 2011. Since 2014, the festival has opened to entries from the four southern states in India. The jury members for the weeks are not known to the public, and consist of a good mix of connoisseurs from diverse fields.
The festival is presented in association with Blu Lotus Foundation and Alliance Francaise of Madras. The Australian Consulate General Chennai, Chennai Live and Goethe Institut supported this edition of the festival.
As a part of S+S 2014, the inaugural Crash Test Drama was conducted on 2nd May, 2014 at the Goethe Institut. 7 English plays and 2 Tamil plays were performed. Five scripts from the Crash Test made it to S+S Chennai 2014and two of the new directors at the Crash Test directed plays in the festival.
We organized 3 workshops – Play-writing workshop by Ramu Ramanathan, The Actor & Space workshop by V. Balakrishnan and Acting, Voice & Stage-craft by Vinod Anand.
This edition, the festival featured nearly 50 plays. There were so many new artists that the Wild Cards category had to be extended into 2 days and 4 shows, instead of the regular 2 shows. This year again we had theatre groups from other cities – Bangalore, Pune, and Sydney. The audience were bigger and better with Chennai folks embracing the festival and making it their own. The number of local scripts performed in the festival outweighed the international scripts, and there were many Tamil plays also. The winner of this edition was “A Typist with Destiny”, directed by Rajiv Rajaram with Naveen George Thomas and Shravan Ramakrishnan in lead roles.
The festival took place from 5th July to 27th July, 2014. The Top 30 plays were staged between 7-9 pm on 4 days a week, and the Wild Card plays were staged in two time slots on the same day. For further details regarding the venue, time and the various plays on each day, kindly select the date from the drop-down menu.
05-07-2014
Mama’s Straight Drive (directed by Abhishek Karthik), Will (directed by Sreejith Palliyil), An Oldman’s Game (directed by Yukendran Kamaraj), Abhyantha (directed by Katharanga Janardhan Chikkanna), Deniable Plausibility (directed by Anand Ravichandran), The Ideal Image (directed by Sukanya Umesh), Milton (directed by Sreenath Palliyil), ‘1, 2, 3 – Ready, Set, Go’ (directed by Divya Mangwani), Va Van Gogh (directed by Bhargav Prasad).
05-07-2014
Mama’s Straight Drive (directed by Abhishek Karthik), Will (directed by Sreejith Palliyil), An Oldman’s Game (directed by Yukendran Kamaraj), Abhyantha (directed by Katharanga Janardhan Chikkanna), Deniable Plausibility (directed by Anand Ravichandran), The Ideal Image (directed by Sukanya Umesh), Milton (directed by Sreenath Palliyil), ‘1, 2, 3 – Ready, Set, Go’ (directed by Divya Mangwani), Va Van Gogh (directed by Bhargav Prasad).
06-07-2014
The Door (directed by Jagadeesh Kanna), Yesterday to Tomorrow (directed by Shravan Kartikeyan), Where Are You, Appa (directed by Prashanth Selvarasu), Haira Pochu (directed by Shyam Sundar), Ponnukadhai (directed by Vaishnavi S), Hello Kitty (directed by Shevaun Da Costa), Black Coffee (directed by Karthik Anantharaman), To B.E. or not to B.E (directed by Shyam Renganathan), Statue (directed by Prabhu Mejel).
06-07-2014
The Door (directed by Jagadeesh Kanna), Yesterday to Tomorrow (directed by Shravan Kartikeyan), Where Are You, Appa (directed by Prashanth Selvarasu), Haira Pochu (directed by Shyam Sundar), Ponnukadhai (directed by Vaishnavi S), Hello Kitty (directed by Shevaun Da Costa), Black Coffee (directed by Karthik Anantharaman), To B.E. or not to B.E (directed by Shyam Renganathan), Statue (directed by Prabhu Mejel).
10-07-2014
The Zombie Apocalypse (directed by Sathish Shanmugam), It’s ok to ask (directed by Lakshmi Ganapathy Murugesan), Rishi Nair’s Untitled Production (directed by Anand Ram), Mr. Politician (directed by Nithya Ramachandran), Take Two (directed by Charan Saravana), The Thing (directed by Shraddha Ja. Venkata Subramanian), Tech-no-logic Progress (directed by Adarsh Satish), Heavenly Baddie (directed by Vivek Rajagopal), New Year’s Eve (directed by Kasturi Goswami), A Typist With Destiny (directed by Rajiv Rajaram).
11-07-2014
The Zombie Apocalypse (directed by Sathish Shanmugam), It’s ok to ask (directed by Lakshmi Ganapathy Murugesan), Rishi Nair’s Untitled Production (directed by Anand Ram), Mr. Politician (directed by Nithya Ramachandran), Take Two (directed by Charan Saravana), The Thing (directed by Shraddha Ja. Venkata Subramanian), Tech-no-logic Progress (directed by Adarsh Satish), Heavenly Baddie (directed by Vivek Rajagopal), New Year’s Eve (directed by Kasturi Goswami), A Typist With Destiny (directed by Rajiv Rajaram).
12-07-2014
The Zombie Apocalypse (directed by Sathish Shanmugam), It’s ok to ask (directed by Lakshmi Ganapathy Murugesan), Rishi Nair’s Untitled Production (directed by Anand Ram), Mr. Politician (directed by Nithya Ramachandran), Take Two (directed by Charan Saravana), The Thing (directed by Shraddha Ja. Venkata Subramanian), Tech-no-logic Progress (directed by Adarsh Satish), Heavenly Baddie (directed by Vivek Rajagopal), New Year’s Eve (directed by Kasturi Goswami), A Typist With Destiny (directed by Rajiv Rajaram).
13-07-2014
The Zombie Apocalypse (directed by Sathish Shanmugam), It’s ok to ask (directed by Lakshmi Ganapathy Murugesan), Rishi Nair’s Untitled Production (directed by Anand Ram), Mr. Politician (directed by Nithya Ramachandran), Take Two (directed by Charan Saravana), The Thing (directed by Shraddha Ja. Venkata Subramanian), Tech-no-logic Progress (directed by Adarsh Satish), Heavenly Baddie (directed by Vivek Rajagopal), New Year’s Eve (directed by Kasturi Goswami), A Typist With Destiny (directed by Rajiv Rajaram).
17-07-2014
Sahithya (directed by Nikhil Sriram), ID (directed by Kalieswari Srinivasan), Oopsy (directed by Smrithi Amarendran), Kichadi Life (directed by Nagarajan Lingam), Saathur Santhippu (directed by Vinodhini Vaidyanathan), The Inner Fire (directed by Amrithavarshini Venkatesh), Eternally Yours (Meghna Mudaliar), The Man Who Was Music (directed by Ajit Chitturi), Waiting for Him (directed by Janardhanan Raghavan), Death of Drona (directed by Meera Sitaraman).
18-07-2014
Sahithya (directed by Nikhil Sriram), ID (directed by Kalieswari Srinivasan), Oopsy (directed by Smrithi Amarendran), Kichadi Life (directed by Nagarajan Lingam), Saathur Santhippu (directed by Vinodhini Vaidyanathan), The Inner Fire (directed by Amrithavarshini Venkatesh), Eternally Yours (Meghna Mudaliar), The Man Who Was Music (directed by Ajit Chitturi), Waiting for Him (directed by Janardhanan Raghavan), Death of Drona (directed by Meera Sitaraman).
19-07-2014
Sahithya (directed by Nikhil Sriram), ID (directed by Kalieswari Srinivasan), Oopsy (directed by Smrithi Amarendran), Kichadi Life (directed by Nagarajan Lingam), Saathur Santhippu (directed by Vinodhini Vaidyanathan), The Inner Fire (directed by Amrithavarshini Venkatesh), Eternally Yours (Meghna Mudaliar), The Man Who Was Music (directed by Ajit Chitturi), Waiting for Him (directed by Janardhanan Raghavan), Death of Drona (directed by Meera Sitaraman).
20-07-2014
Sahithya (directed by Nikhil Sriram), ID (directed by Kalieswari Srinivasan), Oopsy (directed by Smrithi Amarendran), Kichadi Life (directed by Nagarajan Lingam), Saathur Santhippu (directed by Vinodhini Vaidyanathan), The Inner Fire (directed by Amrithavarshini Venkatesh), Eternally Yours (Meghna Mudaliar), The Man Who Was Music (directed by Ajit Chitturi), Waiting for Him (directed by Janardhanan Raghavan), Death of Drona (directed by Meera Sitaraman).
23-07-2014
Blabber Mouth (directed by Vinod Anand), Late for School (directed by Vasudev Menon), Maya and Lakshmi (Janani Narasimhan), How To Drink A Coffee (directed by John Pradeep), Carpouram (directed by Mathivanan Rajendran), Shofu Slaves (directed by Shakthi Ramani), Dogs and Cats Live Together (directed by Sushanth Alexander), To Write My Epitaph (directed by Vaishnavi Sundarajan), Checkout (directed by Yannick Lawry).
24-07-2014
Blabber Mouth (directed by Vinod Anand), Late for School (directed by Vasudev Menon), Maya and Lakshmi (Janani Narasimhan), How To Drink A Coffee (directed by John Pradeep), Carpouram (directed by Mathivanan Rajendran), Shofu Slaves (directed by Shakthi Ramani), Dogs and Cats Live Together (directed by Sushanth Alexander), To Write My Epitaph (directed by Vaishnavi Sundarajan), Checkout (directed by Yannick Lawry).
25-07-2014
Blabber Mouth (directed by Vinod Anand), Late for School (directed by Vasudev Menon), Maya and Lakshmi (Janani Narasimhan), How To Drink A Coffee (directed by John Pradeep), Carpouram (directed by Mathivanan Rajendran), Shofu Slaves (directed by Shakthi Ramani), Dogs and Cats Live Together (directed by Sushanth Alexander), To Write My Epitaph (directed by Vaishnavi Sundarajan), Checkout (directed by Yannick Lawry).
26-07-2014
Blabber Mouth (directed by Vinod Anand), Late for School (directed by Vasudev Menon), Maya and Lakshmi (Janani Narasimhan), How To Drink A Coffee (directed by John Pradeep), Carpouram (directed by Mathivanan Rajendran), Shofu Slaves (directed by Shakthi Ramani), Dogs and Cats Live Together (directed by Sushanth Alexander), To Write My Epitaph (directed by Vaishnavi Sundarajan), Checkout (directed by Yannick Lawry).
27-07-2014
Carpouram, To B.E. or not to B.E., Mr. Politician, Waiting for him, Checkout, A typist with destiny, Saathursanthipu, Sahithya, How to drink a coffee, Death of Drona, Heavenly baddie, ‘1,2,3 – Ready, Set, Go’, Statue.
27-07-2014
Carpouram, To B.E. or not to B.E., Mr. Politician, Waiting for him, Checkout, A typist with destiny, Saathursanthipu, Sahithya, How to drink a coffee, Death of Drona, Heavenly baddie, ‘1,2,3 – Ready, Set, Go’, Statue.
To know more about our past editions of this festival, kindly select a Year from the drop-down menu below.
Pooja Devariya
Rajiv Rajaram
Mathivanan Rajendran
