Short + Sweet Festival 2017

Overview

If there was ever an event tailor-made for those with limited attention spans, it's Short + Sweet Festival. You know that feeling you get when you're 15 minutes into something that you're not all that into? Well, you won't find that here.

In the fest's 2017 Brisbane run over July 26 to August 5 — and its Gold Coast leg from August 10 to 19 too — more than 60 new works will take to the stage across multiple strands of theatre and cabaret. Yes, that sounds like a lot, but there's a twist. Each and every different performance spans a maximum of 10 minutes.

Everything from a singing Terminator and a chickpea empire to the most annoying songs in the world and the aftermath of a job ad gone wrong features among the heaving program of bite-sized theatre delights, with south-east Queensland's best and brightest eager to showcase their condensed skills. Of course, they're not just offering up a sample of their talents for the fun of it; they're also hoping you'll vote to send them through to the Short + Sweet gala finals on September 2 and 3.

Image: Dave D'Arcy