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Jan. 25th, 2005 12:49 pm
"Crossed Lines" - Best of the Rest
So, on Sunday our first play in the Short and Sweet festival was performed - "Crossed Lines". "Best of the Rest" is the drip tray of "Short and Sweet" - plays which Alex and Mark liked but weren't selected for the main competition by directors.
Alex was sure to let the audience know that the plays weren't also rans (in one or two cases, which I'll get to, I'd beg to differ) but that with such a large field (over 1000 plays submitted and 100 plays in the main programme) some worthy plays would be passed over, and this is their chance to get an audience. "Crossed Lines" was our submission to the 2004 Short and Sweet, and we were surprised that Alex wanted to give it a run in "Best of the Rest", even though we already had two plays in the main competition. Anyway - we had a read through on Saturday and Brett managed to work out enough staging to give it pretty close to a full production.
I'll get back to "Crossed Lines" but here are my thoughts on the other plays:
( Click here to get brief reviews )
Our play "Crossed Lines" was well received. Mal and Jackie managed to get laughs purely through their manner which was a joy to see. Olivia was a really good frightened power-bitch. The "surprise" ending did seem to catch some people out (some clever staging from Brett helped, as did Mal's performance.) On the whole it got some great laughs.
One play down, two to go.
Stay tuned.
Alex was sure to let the audience know that the plays weren't also rans (in one or two cases, which I'll get to, I'd beg to differ) but that with such a large field (over 1000 plays submitted and 100 plays in the main programme) some worthy plays would be passed over, and this is their chance to get an audience. "Crossed Lines" was our submission to the 2004 Short and Sweet, and we were surprised that Alex wanted to give it a run in "Best of the Rest", even though we already had two plays in the main competition. Anyway - we had a read through on Saturday and Brett managed to work out enough staging to give it pretty close to a full production.
I'll get back to "Crossed Lines" but here are my thoughts on the other plays:
( Click here to get brief reviews )
Our play "Crossed Lines" was well received. Mal and Jackie managed to get laughs purely through their manner which was a joy to see. Olivia was a really good frightened power-bitch. The "surprise" ending did seem to catch some people out (some clever staging from Brett helped, as did Mal's performance.) On the whole it got some great laughs.
One play down, two to go.
Stay tuned.
