Circus Oz: Company members respond

68 Circus Oz company members have issued a rebuttal to the Board statement released earlier this month.

Shortly after 9pm on Thursday 9 December, the Circus Oz Board released a media statement announcing they would be winding up the company following their inability to convince the company’s approximately 100 members of the apparent need for organisational reform.  

ArtsHub published a story about this decision the following day, Friday 10 December, once the media embargo about the announcement lifted at 11:30am.

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Richard Watts is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM, and serves as the Chair of La Mama Theatre's volunteer Committee of Management. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, and was awarded the status of Melbourne Fringe Living Legend in 2017. In 2020 he was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize. Most recently, Richard was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Green Room Awards Association in June 2021. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts