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.

‘We love touring … and we love performing on Australia’s great stages like Sydney Opera House and the Arts Centre Melbourne; all those things are fantastic and important, but we don’t have a stage of our own,’ explained Richard Hull, Chief Executive Officer of the Flying Fruit Fly Circus.

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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