How Patch Theatre plans to enrich Adelaide’s arts ecology

Rehearsal spaces are ‘like hens' teeth’ in Adelaide; in its new home in Kent Town, Patch Theatre aims to change that.

24 Mar 2023 10:27

Richard Watts

Performing Arts

Patch Theatre’s ‘Sea of Light’. Photo: Marinko Kojdanovski.

Patch Theatre’s new home in inner suburban Adelaide is not just an important next step for the established South Australian children’s company – it has ramifications for the sector as a whole.

Patch, which has been making professional theatre for four- to eight-year-old children and their families since 1972, recently moved into a new space in Kent Town, just outside the Adelaide CBD.

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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