Sue Gough is an award winning novelist and has served as Deputy Chair of the Australia Council Literature Board. She served three terms on the Board of the State Library and is currently on the committee of the Brisbane Writers Festival. She judges the Qld Premier’s Literary Awards, the national Dorothea Mackellar Poetry Prize and the State Library Young Writers Award. A theatre critic for some twenty years, writing for The Australian, The Bulletin and currently the Courier-Mail, she was co-founder of the Matilda Awards for theatre and is still one of the judges.
What is a One Act Play Festival? – each year, across South East Queensland there is a flurry of thespian activity as small and large theatre groups select a one act play, audition and cast the required actors and rehearse intently to create the very best possible production of that play.
While this is happening, entry forms are completed and sent off to the various theatre groups who host a weekend One Act Play Festival and then the fun begins. Each Festival has an average of 15 – 20 plays entered in either Intermediate or Open (Senior) categories and there is a wide range of awards available to be won. Each Festival chooses an Adjudicator to make the decisions and the final Awards session is always a highly emotional event. Festivals are held as far west as Dalby, south to Beenleigh and north to Sunshine Coast (Buderim) and the season runs from June to September. Some plays are entered into all the Festivals, some to only one or two, but regardless of the number, all involved speak of the fun, friendliness and rewards that are gained.
We are proud that our Festival has the reputation of being one of the friendliest and best organised Festivals in the South East Queensland Festival circuit and we would love your theatre group to submit a play this year.
If your theatre group is interested in entering our exciting Festival, please contact the Festival Director, Suzanne Matulich on 3281 4748 or
suzanne@matulich.org to be put on the database.
The Ipswich Little Theatre One Act Play Festival continues to be the longest running festival of its type in Australia and no one has yet disputed that claim.
Do be a part of all the fun and competition next year – you will be warmly welcomed.
Looking for new One Act Plays for the Festival circuit?
Playwright Darren Brealey has asked us to let people, who are interested in our One Act Play Festival, know that he has plays that they might be interested in choosing for production.
He is an emerging Australian Playwright who has a store of one-act plays available for anyone looking for new works or who are at a loss at what to produce for One-Act Play Festivals.
His one act plays have been performed in Scone (NSW), Kyneton (VIC) and as far away as Singapore and Malaysia as part of the Short and Sweet One-Act Play Festivals.
You can find examples of his works, critical reviews, awards, recorded performances, information about him and more at
www.aussieoneactplays.com.
