Today the inner city, tomorrow the world

Options for touring innovative works aren’t just limited to the hipster belts of Australia’s major cities.
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A scene from No Strings Attached Theatre of Disability’s Sons & Mothers; image via www.nostringsattached.org.au

Opportunities for remounting and touring works which experiment with form, which reject or remake traditional narratives and dramatic structures, can sometimes seem limited. It’s easy to believe that the only people regularly attending avant-garde performances are other performance-makers, but there are audiences out there for more challenging work – it’s just a matter of finding them.

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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