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| This year's participants and organizers of Short+ Sweet Manila. |
The much anticipated marathon of short plays is now
coming back this September in Taguig City, the international franchise of Short
+ Sweet Manila 2015 now comes with around 30 short play this time slated for
all the weekend of September at the Samsung Hall of SM Aura.
It is a festival of more than 30 ten minute plays
featuring those aspiring actors, actress, playwright and directors from
different fields mostly with no backgrounds in Theaters, it’s a competition as
well wherein at the last week the best will be honored and awarded.
“Short + Sweet gives platform to everybody, not only theater
person, but anyone from any background in life, and aspire to do theater.” Said
by Vaishall Ray, this year’s Festival Producer.
Originally started in Sydney, Australia in 2002,
Short+Sweet is now being held in more than 25 countries in the world annually,
and it’s the second time here in Manila organized by Vaishall and her group.
“Manila is filled with a lot of talents, people are
amazing here as far theater is concern, their performances are so powerful, and
they love the arts and culture. Generally Filipinos are very artistic people,
this could be the better place for Short+Sweet.” Added Ray.
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| Short + Sweet Festival Director Divya Rajan Sriram and Festival Producer Vaishali Ray. |
Aside from short plays there will be classes held and its
open to this year’s participants who passed the rigid auditions, and to those
interested for a fee of P500. Among this year’s speakers who will conduct
master classes are Jeremy Domingo for Voice for the theater on Sept 5, Joem
Antonio for Compact Scriptwriting on
Sept 6, Ami Ramolete for Discovering the Art of Puppetry through Acting
scheduled on Sept 12, Jac Vidgen for Optiman Breathing Techniques to empower
performance and health-On and Off Stage on Sept 13. While Nicanor Campos and
Christine Cojuangco will discuss Shakespeare Master Class by Sept 19, and Aruna
Viswadoss will talk movement in drama on Sept 20.
Master classes are 10 12noon, wildcards are 2 to 4 in the
afternoon and main shows are from 6 to 8 in the evening. Short + Sweet Manila
2015 is brought to you by SM Aura Premier, Business Mirror, Samsung Hall, Art
Edge Events Exhibits Designs, SM Lifestyle Entertainment, Inc, Snack Time,
Arvato Bertelsmann, Tech Mahindra, Raintree Restaurants, New India Assurance
and Max’s Group.
Below are the participating shorts plays,
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