There are three basic ways to experience a Short & Sweet Festival: 1) As a wildcard, performed once (or twice) - with all your work focused on that one (or those two) performances to impress an audience 2) As a Top Thirty play - five performances spread over a week, a decent but short season to show off your ten minute play, put together in a handful of weeks by writer, director and actors that are basically thrown together randomly 3) As an Independent Theatre Company submission - where an independent theatre company presents the show as a group, able to handpick their director and have more discretion over casting, production, etc. And as I've been involved in three Short & Sweet Festivals in Melbourne now, I've progressed through each of those experiences. They all have their pros and cons, but for me, developing this project with The Wooden Leg team has been the most fulfilling to this point thus far. Wallis, Andy, Hayley and I got to decide which play we we
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