Circus Oz: Company members respond

68 Circus Oz company members have issued a rebuttal to the Board statement released earlier this month.

Shortly after 9pm on Thursday 9 December, the Circus Oz Board released a media statement announcing they would be winding up the company following their inability to convince the company’s approximately 100 members of the apparent need for organisational reform.  

ArtsHub published a story about this decision the following day, Friday 10 December, once the media embargo about the announcement lifted at 11:30am.

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Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in 2020. In 2021 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association. Most recently, Richard received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts