If you find yourself drifting out of extended conversations and scrolling through your various social media feeds during a half an hour television show, you are the perfect candidate for the Short+Sweet Festival. Proving that almost anything can happen in just ten short minutes, the festival features over 25 local works from performance-makers doing their darndest to make you laugh, cry or wonder.

Short+Sweet Festival will feature morsels of entertainment entitled The First Wife, Love Essentially, Elvis is Dead and The Longest Five Minutes among the extraordinary line-up of shows. For those who like to feel like they’re part of the show, head along to the choose-your-own-adventure story with The Customer Is Always Right, an interactive play asking the audience to make decisions for the characters. Tickets start at $28, pop over to The Arts Centre Gold Coast to take a look at the full program and to grab your tickets.