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Season cancelled after theatre abruptly condemned

Spare Parts Puppet Theatre’s Fremantle theatre has been condemned without warning, disrupting the company’s season, revenue and other activities.
10 Aug 2022 13:26
Richard Watts

Performing Arts

Rachel Arianne Ogle in the Spare Parts Puppet Theatre production, Fox. Image supplied.

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The shock condemnation of Spare Parts Puppet Theatre’s Fremantle auditorium by WA’s Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries – apparently without notice – has forced the company to cancel all upcoming productions in its 2022 season.

Two productions – The Secret Garden (based on the popular book by Frances Hodgson Burnett, and for which rehearsals were about to start) and the subsequent summer season of Hare Brain – have been impacted.

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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

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