Doing it again: should you remount your work?

Independent theatre practitioners discuss the challenges and benefits of restaging already successful productions.
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Live performance is an ephemeral art, especially in the independent theatre sector where work, once staged, is often never seen again despite the months, even years of labour leading up to each production.

Bucking the trend, this month sees a range of works being remounted in Perth and Melbourne (with one production, Tales of a City by the Sea, also touring to Adelaide and Sydney later in the year); a rare opportunity to fine-tune scripts, further finesse performances and design elements, and expose new audiences to the ideas of some of our most exciting stage talents.

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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