Touring tips: Making it easier for indies to get from coast to coast

Touring a show from Perth to Sydney is hard yakka – especially when your artistic ambition is constrained by the size of your suitcase.

18 Jul 2018 12:00

Richard Watts

Performing Arts

Image: The Ballad Of Frank Allen. Photo credit: Paul Robinson

Staging a production in your home town is challenging enough, let alone taking it on tour – especially when you’re transporting a production over 3,900 km from Perth to Sydney.

This year’s Bondi Feast (held at the Bondi Pavilion, overlooking Bondi Beach from 17-28 July) features a number of Perth artists, several of whom are taking their work to Sydney for the first time.

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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