Lynn Belvedere

SHORT AND SWEET WILDCARDS WEEK 4

Wildcards Program Week 4 of Short+Sweet Sydney 2014 Festival, has eleven short plays, and yes one playwright,  for irony, decided to cleverly misuse “exit pursued by a bear”.

ENTER MAC, DS by Johnm Levine. Director: Olivia Clement. CAST: Mark Nagle, Courtney Bain. The Actors Dilemna and how to solve it (cleverly) in under ten minutes.

THE WRITER THE SNAIL AND THE BABY LICKER by Adam Szudrich. Ebony Halliday directs Anthony Finch and Laura Fisher. “The snail thinks that it is a cricket” and “your sperm stinks” and “it is just a period”. Excellent marital argument at 9.9 on the richter scale.

ONE WEDDING AND A BETRAYAL by Susan Cullen. Director: Tara Gallop-Brennan. CAST: Jack Gow, Harley James. How to be cuckolded by your brother with the soon to be bride.

SCENE ONE TWENTY-TWO directed and written by Bokke Robertson. CAST: Celia Kelly, Sam Jenkins. Behind the scenes drama, at the red carpet premier screening of their new movie and her pet
FLUFFY drowned (she was a goldfish) and as the movie unfolds, their torrid love affair during shooting is re-lived and then re-kindled.

A LEADING ROLE by Beverley Lello. Archy Kazwini directs CAST: Gabriella Molocco, Claudio Trovaro and Kimberly Lim. Strange themed drama, about the low-cut red dress that she was almost wearing.

BEFORE THE DOORS OPEN is Faith de Savigne’s fourth S+S play. Directed by Maggy Franklin. CAST: Colleen Henry, Clare Tamas and Lorenzo Ruru. Welcome shoppers to the excellent situation comedy set in the ten minutes before the store’s “Midnight Sale” begins.

LA CLINICA as written and directed by Carolina Diaz. CAST: Dimitri Armatas, Celine Oudin, Elise Violan, Abby Hosie and Jodie Davis. Medical malpractice farce.

FOURTEEN by Ami-Lou Sharpe and directed by Emma Powell. CAST: Henry Arkwright, Phoebe Pearson. Yes she is now eighten years old, but she was only fourteen years old, so he is still a paedophile, just ask any policeman.

UNFINISHED by Richard Farland and directed by Katelyn Wallace. CAST: David Owens, Romney Stanton, Richard Farland. Unrequited love as expressed by the playwright and actor, and all about Eva/Anna.

CROSSROADS by Victoria Vinson and directed by Emmanuel Nicolaou CAST: Michael Gooley, Jacqueline McFarlane, Michael Smith. Difficult decision at wife’s uneral, love lost in Vietnam versus love found in Australia.

FAMILY BUSINESS by Kay Poiro and directed by Luke Holmes CAST: Greg Webster, Kristen McCabe, Sarah Connor. Fractured fairy tale comedy about the shoemaker and the now missing glass slipper, was the hit of the afternoon.

Another good week for the  WILDCARDS.

Published by Lynn Belvedere

Once we were old enough, my parents took the whole family to the Sydney CBD cinemas every week. Thus began a lifetime interest, in going to the cinema every week, and became a passionate cinephile by watching all those very heavily edited ''Australian Film Censorship Board'' true cinéaste versions of brand new release ''Cinematograph Films''. Greater Union always gave my father (who worked in Cinema Distribution Exhibition) guest double movie passes, to every first-night ''red carpet Opening Night'' at The State Theatre Cinema at 49 Market Street. Up until his death, my dad always received ''two house seats'' for every Opening Night performance events at the Theatre Royal SYDNEY and at Her Majesty's Theatre SYDNEY. As a child, when mum choose not to go, I often went with him, to those live performance events. As a young child, I remember being taken for each new show, at both The New Theatre at 60 Sussex Street, and the Phillip Street Theatre when located at 150 Elizabeth Street, and for classical music concerts at Sydney Town Hall. = = = ★★★★★ = = = Being happy is a choice, and I have always viewed my life, as material ready be made into a series of amazing tentpole movies. My New Years Resolution is kept every year: ''Get to see/review five new live theatre shows each week, and get to see/review six new cinema movies each week'', plus is one of the Australian Cinema Pioneers, and apparently have seen far too much already, but always wanting to experience more and more each year. I am also able to do almost everything that I enjoy doing. Yes, I do have a great daytime job in I.T. as ''Software Design Project Manager'', PLUS each evening until quite late - - - Australian Cinematograph Films historical censorship consultant - product-placement consultant - mystery-shopper consultant - playwright, writer, author, director, producer, photographer, cinematographer, color-grader, subtitles proofreader - arts/ drama/ music/ film critic and judge, journalist, member FIPRESCI & FCCA & AFCA, member AACTA accredited film reviewer-critic-writer, accredited IMDB.COM critic-reviewer-author, projectionist, plus an innovative iconoclast - - - ★★★★★ LYNN BELVEDERE ★★★★★ - - - [usr 5] - - -

2 comments

  1. You could take a scene out of Arthur Miller or Tennessee Williams and it wouldn’t do well at S+S. Considering the execrable drivel which has dominated Judges and Peep’s choice over the years, it’s not quality (in writing, staging etc) that succeeds but a pandering to the obvious in supposed “edginess” or feel-good factor. It would be like giving the Booker Prize to 50 Shades or the Da Vinci Code. Considering the utterly risible “Sex Toy” play won its round a few weeks back, as have many others with juvenile sexual themes, they should just be honest and rebrand it as the Tampax Play Festival. As long as something gets stuck up your **** you have a chance…

  2. “Misuse ‘exit pursued by a bear'” ??
    Again, don’t take it to heart, that’s Australians for you – completely immune to irony. Pearls before swine…

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