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Indie Theatre: how can you tell?

Icons, branding, labels … the medium as message, but what’s the message or meaning when it comes to theatre labels?  There are lots around, and I’m curious about one in particular – independent. I see it and its diminutive and the very buzzy word indie everywhere.  I’m sufficiently that way inclined – too much of

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Theatre talent quests: who wins?

It’s in its ninth year according to Short+Sweet’s website, but I hadn’t heard of this competitive festival of 10 minute plays until relatively recently.  Short+Sweet arrived in Brisbane this year, and played at Brisbane’s Powerhouse just prior to the start of the Brisbane Festival – a kind of outlier or ‘fringe up front’ to the

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