Theatre 2018 Season 1

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Falafel

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SHORT + SWEET THEATRE
AUCKLAND

Falafel

Show 1  |  2 – 4 September

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  • About The Piece

    Can a national dish define a culture? Are we defined by the place where we are born in? A man struggles with the conflict of being labelled by his roots and the decisions of his family against his own beliefs.

  • Created By

    Writer Mallika Krishnamurthy
     Director Sananda Chatterjee

  • Independent Theatre Company

    Babel Theatre

  • About The Company

    Babel Theatre is a Collaborative Theatre Company founded in 2017 by a multidisciplinary group of artists, with the aim of using Culture Diversity as a creative tool. In 2017, their first play, The Apple, was awarded Best Play at the Short+Sweet festival. For this play, Babel have the pleasure of being directed by Sananda Chatterjee (director of Dara)

  • Cast

    Itai Biran

    Daniel Fernandez

    Adriana Yianacou

    Sneha Shetty

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Play It With Flowers

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SHORT + SWEET THEATRE
AUCKLAND

Play It With Flowers

SHOW 1  |  2 – 4 September

 

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  • About The Piece

    Play It With Flowers written by Kathy Walker with valued contribution from Ferooz Ashfar . The play is a parody on Paradise Lost. Lucifer’s successful temptation of Eve, drives not only Adam and Eve from paradise, but as Lucifer crows ‘ It’s everybody out.’ The flowers of the Garden find themselves banished too. On earth alone and scared they come across a wide guy, a shamrock with all the charm of the Irish.

  • Created By

    Writer  Kathy Walker & Ferooz Ashfar (Auckland, NZ)
    Director Margaret Mary Hollins

  • Independent Theatre Company

    Marvellous Theatre Group

  • About the Company

    Marvellous Theatre Group formed in 2011as part of A.T.C. Engagement programme for senior citizens, 65 to 90 years with the spirit of ‘ never to old to play’ . Performances include T.S. Eliot’s epic poem The Waste Land; Auckland University Summer Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Margaret Mary Hollins guides the group in the Short And Sweet festival.

  • Cast

    Ferooz Afshar

    Victoria Carr

    Elisabeth Degremont

    Helen Jermyn

    Denise Kent

    Valerie Leech

    Maurice Mehlhopt

    Patricia Noonan

    Josephine Power

    Christina Pusztay

    Mr Putt

    Pat Quirk

    Angela Reading

    Lesley Reihana

    Marianne Simpkins

    Rosslyn Smillie

    Kathy Walker

Barry Wood

Timesavers

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SHORT + SWEET THEATRE
AUCKLAND

Timesavers

Show 1  |  2 – 4 September

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  • About The Piece

    Have you ever wished that you could go back in time and do something over again? Even just five minutes into the past to stop yourself from spilling a hot coffee all over your crotch, or even just to see what would happen? Well, we have just the shop for you!

    Come into Timesavers, and we’ll help you save some time! 

    This short play will test your imagination about what is possible, and what isn’t all for twenty bucks!

  • Created By

    Writers Barry Wood (Lincolnshire, England)
    Director Rebekah Dack

  • About the Director

    Rebekah Dack is a recent graduate from Unitec’s Bachelor of Performing and Screen Arts – majoring in acting. Before graduating she realised that to be a successful theatre and film practitioner in New Zealand, she needed to be more than just an actor. Since finishing drama school, she has been exploring producing, writing alongside acting. She is a co-founder of Embers Collective, a theatre company that had their debut show in Te Pou Theatre’s Rangatahi festival this year. A play that Rebekah wrote, Ludus, is also in Short + Sweet this year. This is her first time as a director.

  • Cast

    Michael Brown

    Lauren Mclay

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Happy New Year

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SHORT + SWEET THEATRE
AUCKLAND

Happy New Year

Show 1  |  2 – 4 September

 

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  • About The Piece

    Two best friends share stories about their New Year’s Eve memories.

  • Created By

    Writer Catherine Yates & Josh Metcalfe (Auckland, NZ)
    Director Catherine Yates + Josh Metcalfe

  • Independent Theatre Company

    Jet Pack Productions

  • About the Company

    JetPack Productions is a new emerging company formed by Josh Metcalfe and Catherine Yates, created during their time at drama school together. Their first and most recent project was a short mask theatre scene called “Counseled” created and performed by themselves for “SOCIO” (a theatre cabaret night) at Lot 23 in 2017. They both have a background in Acting and devising and are recent acting graduates of Unitec Performing Arts School. They are both very excited to put something on for Short and Sweet for the first time ever!

  • Cast

    Catherine Yates

    Josh Metcalfe

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Just Another Day

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SHORT + SWEET THEATRE
AUCKLAND

Just Another Day

Show 1  |  2 – 4 September

 

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  • About The Piece

    Just Another Day is a light-hearted slice-of-life story exploring the differences between generations of immigrants and the disconnect that often occurs between immigrants and their children.

  • Created By

    Writers Bala Murali Shingade (Auckland, NZ)
    Director Bala Murali Shingade

  • Independent Theatre Company

    Kahania Film & Theatre

  • About the Company

    Kahania Film & Theatre is a newly formed independent production company working in both film and theatre, based in Auckland. We aim to tell authentic stories from a diverse range of voices in Aotearoa New Zealand.

  • Cast

    Rupal Solanki

    Bala Murali Shingade

    Daniel Nisbet

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Paradise

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SHORT + SWEET THEATRE
AUCKLAND

Paradise

Show 1  |  2 – 4 September

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  • About The Piece

    Paradise’ is an epic action adventure comedy spanning the oceans in a quest that finds the ultimate chest of treasure lies in the riches of our imaginations.

  • Created By

    Writers Peter Larsen (Auckland, NZ)
    Director Jarrod Martin

  • Independent Theatre Company

    A Dubious Enterprise

  • About the Company

    A Dubious Enterprise is a production company dedicated to providing a platform for original performance across multiple genres, including the long running Gong show in Whangarei and Auckland, Brainsex and various theatrical adventures.

  • Cast

    Sophie Wright

    Jodi Scarlett Katsoolis

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Asian but Brown

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SHORT + SWEET THEATRE
AUCKLAND

Asian but Brown

Show 1  |  2 – 4 September

 

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  • About The Piece

    An acting solo derived from an assessment in 2015 created at Pacific Institute of Performing Arts. This solo draws upon Melissa’s life being of being a half cast and the experiences she has encountered in life – racism, abandonment, insecurities and self acceptance.

  • Created By

    Writer Melissa Sripromma (Auckland, NZ)
    Director Lauren Jackson

  • About The Director

    Lauren works as a playwright, director, filmmaker, actor and drama tutor. She has directed various stage productions for the Pacific Institute of Performing Arts, Smackbang Theatre Company, ATC and Four Afloat Productions She began her career playing the lead in the NZ feature film Alex. Following her graduation from Toi Whakaari: NZ Drama School in 2001, Lauren has enjoyed a variety of stage, screen and radio work.

  • Cast

    Melissa Sripromma

Sinéad Deighton-OFlynn

Smelly Taxi

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SHORT + SWEET THEATRE
AUCKLAND

Smelly Taxi

Show 1  |  2 – 4 September

 

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  • About The Piece

    A comedy of manners about the limits of politeness, set inside an Auckland taxi. The play follows a group of friends at the end of a night of carousing, as they are driven home by a disheartened taxi driver. One small comment is all it takes for what would usually be an innocuous ride home to become a hilariously uncomfortable situation.

  • Created By

    Writers Sinéad Deighton-O’Flynn & Joshua Worthington-Church (Auckland, NZ)
    Director Sinéad Deighton-O’Flynn

  • Independent Theatre Company

    Feel Bad Theatre Company

  • About the Company

    Feel Bad Theatre Company is the theatrical branch of the Auckland based ‘Feel Bad’ Universe, the creative project founded by Sinéad Deighton-O’Flynn and Joshua Worthington-Church. Sinéad is a writer and filmmaker. Josh is a writer and musician. Smelly Taxi is the first theatrical project that the two have collaborated on.

  • Cast

    Ashton Brown

    Daniel Jones

    Daniel Townsend

    Sinéad Deighton-O’Flynn

    Lilli Cornwell-Young

Carl Drake

Close Enough

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SHORT + SWEET THEATRE
AUCKLAND

Close Enough

Show 1  |  2 – 4 September

 

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  • About The Piece

    Fiona is a disgruntled indoor cat who finds herself suddenly transplanted to a new home when her owner moves in with her boyfriend and the couple adopts a new kitten, Prometheus. Like all kittens, Prometheus is lively and curious, and Fiona finds herself in an awkward position when the two cats happen to witness their humans “mating”.

  • Created By

    Writer Kellie Powell (New York, USA)
    Director Carl Drake

  • About the Director

    Carl has been involved with a number of plays at Short + Sweet as both actor and director since 2013. He has directed a number of plays in various theatres and is looking forward to directing in this years S+S with a wonderfully funny play by one of his favourite playwrights Kellie Powell.

  • Cast

    Mia Maramara 


    Zoe Gilmore 

  • Independent Theatre Company

    Cafe Theatre

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Combo B

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SHORT + SWEET THEATRE
AUCKLAND

Combo B

Show 1  |  2 – 4 September

 

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  • About The Piece

    Sam is a young kiwi-asian girl stuck in a New Zealand small town and wants to get out, she has big dreams of getting into music school. In this short scene she meets Amy a small minded girl who’s never left the town. They befriend each other after a awkward start and Sam helps her open up about her dreams.

  • Created By

    Writer Josh Metcalfe (Auckland, NZ)
    Director Josh Metcalfe

  • About the Company

    Josh Metcalfe is an up and coming director, writer and actor. He graduated last year with a Bachelor of Performing and Screen Arts at Unitec. Josh was part of Long Cloud Youth theatre when growing up in Wellington and last year studied abroad with Shanghai Theatre Academy Summer School in a Chinese Opera course. He was also a part of ATC’s Here and Now writers table where he grew his writing skills.

  • Cast

    Tanya Corpuz

    Asha Haines