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New regional theatre gets $3.3M green light

The Borderville Studio Theatre will expand the Flying Fruit Fly Circus’ existing headquarters with a custom-built performance space for circus arts.

3 Aug 2022 14:08

Richard Watts

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NSW Minister for the Arts Ben Franklin and students from the Flying Fruit Fly Circus. Image supplied.

A $3.3 million investment from the NSW Government’s Creative Capital fund will support the construction of a new 100-seat studio theatre in Albury.

Announced today by NSW Minister for Regional Youth and the Arts, the Hon. Ben Franklin MP, together with the Member for Albury Justin Clancy, the Borderville Studio Theatre will be located within the current Flying Fruit Fly Circus (FFFC) site in South Albury.

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Richard Watts

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