JESSE HILFORD
THOMAS
How to Write a Ten Minute Play
Written by - Pete Malicki
Directed - Jesse Hilford
Assistant Directed - Harriett Maire
Cast - Hanna Botha, Alex Walker, Mel Odedra
Lighting Design - Michael Craven
Presented as part of Short and Sweet Festival 2017
TAPAC (The Auckland Performing Arts Centre)
Gala Finalist - Audience Choice
Winner - Best Ensemble.
How to Write a Ten Minute Play was a fun "instructional" guide for the other theatre makers in the Short and Sweet Festival. The "professional guide" tries to give clear instruction on how to and how not to write a short play. Pete Malicki wrote a very funny script which allowed the cast and myself to play with all the conventions of making a short play. As this was an instructional play it allowed us to remove the fourth wall and play with the audience and this interaction started before the play started as the two "actors" warmed up on stage while the audience entered the theatre. This blurred the lines of the play and reality.
Reviews:
"Perhaps the cleverest and slickest script is Pete Maliki's How to Write a 10 Minute Play"
Photography by Allan Xia | www.allanxia.com