Could a purpose-built theatre strengthen Australia’s circus sector?

The proposed 100-seat Borderville Theatre will be specifically designed for circus performances.

Despite performing and touring consistently since 1979, Australia’s national youth circus company, the Flying Fruit Fly Circus (aka ‘The Fruities’) does not have a theatre to call its own.

That plan is now one step closer to reality, with Hull and his team in the process of submitting a $3.9 million business case for the construction of a 100-seat black box theatre – specifically designed for circus performances – at the Fruities’ existing Albury headquarters.

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Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's former 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 2019 Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in early 2020. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association in 2021, and a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Photo: Fiona Hamilton. Follow Richard on Bluesky @richardthewatts.bsky.social and Instagram @richard.l.watts