Sweet it is, that is if you come expecting a love story with no back bone.
Based around an average looking and rather dense office drone male, who accidentally stumbles across a beautiful and conscientious woman, (thoughts revolving mainly around marriage and baking) the drones heart, in the shape of another more colourful character makes countless efforts to unite the pair by any means possible. With an oblivious sleep walk of an existence, you see, it’s hard to see a good thing coming.
That’s right, it’s an ‘insert laugh’ disaster.
OK, so gender politics aside, the romantic in you can oversee the overdone and predictable pitfalls of the plot. Because when you combine carefully choreographed moving stage pieces with simple yet cleverly effective sounds and props, then throw in puppets, ballet, catchy music, skilful miming, a characters heart portrayed by a souse and all those things one adores to ridicule about love, you’ve got some pretty nifty distraction methods at your mercy.
Saying this, no matter how energetic the performances of the actors, (the female lead in particular is multi-talented and extremely captivating) or the naive attempts to stop at nothing in order to engage the audience, Sweet is lacking in spontaneity, substance and to put it quite simply, authenticity.
One audience member in the front row couldn’t contain himself with regular outbursts of hilarity. Paid, maybe, as he was the only thing that reminded us to keep on laughing.
2/5 
Celia Philips
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