01 - What We Do

Eight capabilities. One TSA.

Drapes & Accessories→ Soft goods, FR treatment, hire fleet. Sets, Scenery & Props→ Scenic builds, props, set hardware. Lifting & Rigging→ Chain, pile & drum hoists, controllers, consumables. Production Engineering→ Production management, design, custom kit. Venue Engineering & Installation→ Fit-outs, integration, upgrades. Dance & Studio Equipment→ Sprung floors, barres, mirrors, vinyl. Compliance & Service→ Inspections, certificates, callouts. Hire & Touring→ Calendar-driven kit. National coverage.
Products
Services
Drapes & Accessories Soft goods, supplied and supported. Drapes, tracks, FR treatment and hire fleet from our in-house workshop. Theatre-grade soft goods, engineered, FR-treated and serviced under TSA.
Services
Sets, Scenery & Props Built in-house. Toured nationally. Set construction, prop fabrication, museum and gallery fit-out and exhibition builds from our dedicated workshop. Concept to strike, with the engineering paperwork to back it.
Products
Services
Lifting & Rigging Rated gear. Stocked and serviced here. EXE Rise and Ace chain hoists, TSA pile and Hercules drum hoists, Atlas controllers, full consumables range. Design, supply, install, service, recertify.
Services
Production Engineering When off-the-shelf stops working. Production management, technical design and drafting, custom fabrication and cue-driven motion control. The technical side of your show - managed, designed, built and run.
Services
Venue Engineering & Installation Fit-out to commission, one team. Venue fit-outs, system installation, integration and safety upgrades. From new-build PACs to retrofit refurbishments. Engineered, documented, signed off.
Products
Dance & Studio Equipment Made for the joints that depend on it. Sprung floors, Tarkett performance vinyl, ballet barres, studio mirrors, tap and sports flooring. Measured, manufactured and installed to the room.
Inspections & programmes
Specialist inspections
Compliance & Service The paperwork your insurer asks for. Service & Inspection Programme, Venue Systems Health Check, electrical testing, emergency callouts. Defensible documentation, on schedule.
Services
Hire & Touring Calendar-driven kit. National coverage. Drape hire, hoist hire, touring packages. The same kit you'd buy, available on a calendar. Picked, prepped, shipped, collected.
02 - Industries

Eleven industries. One TSA.

Theatres & Performing Arts Centres Lyric houses, regional PACs, repertory venues. Long-cycle compliance, dark-week installs. Schools & Education Term-break windows, school-budget cycles, training programmes. Worship Venues Acoustic-sensitive spaces, AV-led production, multi-purpose halls. Stadiums, Convention Centres & Live Events Arena rigging, convention fit-outs, large-format event delivery. AV & Production Hire Companies Trade supply, cross-hire inventory, servicing and specialist support. Touring Productions Tour-ready packages, on-the-road servicing, certified gear. Film, TV & Studios Studio rigging, broadcast support, motion-controlled scenic. Museums & Galleries Permanent galleries, touring exhibitions, heritage recreations, display fabrication. Dance Studios & Companies Sprung floors, ballet barres and studio mirrors, made to the room. Corporate & Conference Venues Conference stages, auditorium AV, corporate event rigging and staging. Government & Civic Venues Council-owned PACs, civic centres, town halls and public venues.
Proof of work Recent Projects Lyric theatres, arenas, museums, schools and studios. The jobs behind the capability, and what we specified, built and signed off on each one.
TSA crew rigging chain hoists on an arena floor beside branded MX Control flight cases

Touring Packages - equipment hire scoped to a whole tour: the drapes, hoists, rigging and control kit a production carries, prepped and certified once as one package, delivered to the first venue, supported for the life of the run and collected from the last, Australia wide

Hire & Touring · Touring Packages

One package. Every venue. Show-ready.

A touring package is hire scoped to the whole tour, not a single venue - the drapes, hoists, rigging and control kit your production carries, prepped and certified once, then supported for the life of the run. Tell us the schedule and the technical rider, and the package is built around how the show moves.

Request availability for these dates → Read a project story →

Or call 1300 439 872

Carried by touring productions on stages around Australia
Annie Back to the Future Hamilton The Lion King MJ The Musical Moulin Rouge Wicked Cairns Convention Centre Melbourne Olympic Park Canberra Theatre Centre HOTA Home of the Arts Brisbane Powerhouse Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre Brisbane Showgrounds Encore Microhire
Where this starts

Three ways in.

Every touring package is scoped per production, with no fixed menu. Start from what you have in hand and the package is built around how the show moves.

Start from the tour schedule

Cities and dates first. The package and its freight plan are built around how the show moves, leg by leg.

Send the schedule

Start from the technical rider

Send the rider and we translate it into one prepped, certified kit - drapes, hoists, rigging and control.

Send the rider

Start from a problem mid-tour

Already on the road and short of kit or support? National coverage picks the tour up where it is.

On-the-road service

Kit, freight, support and crew are confirmed per production, with assistance on request at every leg. Request availability for these dates and we reply inside the working day. Not sure what the tour needs? Plan your hire.

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Essential-fault turnaround on maintained tours
24/7
Contact for the production, life of the run
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Supplying Australia's stages since
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Delivered and collected Australia wide
Two rows of open road cases with cabling, lined up along a warehouse aisle.
One kit, cased Touring rigging kit staged in the TSA warehouse before it ships
What a touring package is

Certified once.
Supported city to city.

A touring package is hire scoped to the whole tour, not one venue. The drapes, hoists, rigging hardware, control kit and road cases a production carries come from the same national fleet we sell and service, certified once as one kit and packed to re-rig the same way in every city. Each package is scoped from the schedule and the technical rider, not a fixed list.

Rigging package

The lifting kit
  • Chain hoists and controllers
  • Truss
  • Cabling, shackles, slings and wires

Automation package

Adds control and crew
  • Console and control racks
  • Drive racks, winches and motors
  • Cabling and post-install support
  • Crew to install, integrate, operate and pack down

Quantities are set by the show, so both are starting points, not a menu.

Maintained lease: the kit stays serviced, tagged and show-ready city to city, with preventive maintenance through the run. A major international touring musical toured on TSA-maintained kit: a complete rigging and automation package delivered to the first venue and collected from the last, with a 24-hour turnaround on essential faults and around-the-clock contact for the life of the run.

This page is the kit half of touring. Scenic repair on the road: Touring Support. Whole-of-tour technical direction: Production Management. Touring for a living? See Touring Productions.

Scoped per production Certified once, as one kit Delivered to the first venue Collected from the last Supported for the life of the run
TSA crew in orange vests checking hire gear on a bench in the warehouse.
Hire prep TSA crew checking gear before it ships
A black hoist controller sitting in its flight case.
Hoist controller packed in its own flight case
Three TSA crew loading a winch unit up a ramp into a truck.
Load-out a winch unit going onto the truck
A crew member standing in the open back of a touring truck trailer.
Touring trailer ready to take the kit city to city
What a touring package does for your show

Four jobs, one kit.

One package, every venue

A packaged kit re-rigs the same way in every city, so the crew builds the same show on night one and night one hundred.

Paperwork that travels

Test documentation and engineering paperwork travel in the case, so the venue's certification questions are answered before they are asked twice.

Spares on the road

Tour-spec spares travel with the package and national on-the-road service backs it, so a fault costs hours, not a performance.

First venue to last

We hand the package over where the tour starts and take it back where it ends: one engagement, not a city-by-city renegotiation.

How hire runs

Five steps.
One engagement.

Same hire spine as everything we ship: checked out, shipped, supported, checked back in. The difference is scale: one kit prepped once, supported for the life of the run.

Availability checkSend the cities, dates and the technical rider if you have one. We check the national fleet and answer inside the working day.Same day
Pick and prepPicked, inspected and certified once as one kit, with current test tags, FR certificates and rated-gear paperwork in the cases.Certified once
Ship nationalPalletised and freighted to the first venue, Australia wide, with the freight booked by us around your bump-in window.Australia wide
Run supportA number that answers while the show is on. Assistance, callouts and on-the-road service on request for the life of the hire.On request
Collect and inspect back inReturn freight is booked from the last venue and the kit is inspected back into the fleet, so the next production gets it right.Back to fleet

Hire that runs on the show's calendar, not ours.

Bump-in, run, bump-out: the package is built around the schedule. Send the window and we check the fleet.

Request availability for these dates → Or read a project story

Single-venue hire? Start at Drape Hire or Hoist & Rigging Hire.

The inside of a semi-trailer loaded with black flight cases, seen from the tail lift.
On the job

One kit prepped once, supported for the life of the run.

Moulin Rouge! The Musical a semi-trailer loaded with flight cases

Australia wide

Freight booked, Australia wide.

Delivered to the first venue, collected from the last, with on-the-road service on request for the life of the hire.

MJ The Musical on stage in front of the neon 5 set
MJ The Musical on stage, touring
A printed floorcloth laid out in the TSA workshop for MJ The Musical
Printed floorcloth laid out in the workshop
In the wings

MJ The Musical.

A custom toaster lift, a turntable and the show control behind them, plus rigging and printed soft goods, engineered in-house and kept show-ready across international seasons.

Read the case study →
Proof on the road

Kit we've kept
on tour.

International musicals and season-to-season spectaculars have carried TSA kit for years, maintained through their runs.

Read a project story
FAQ

Questions about
touring packages.

If your question is not here, send the schedule and the rider - we will come back with how the package would run for your show.

Call 1300 439 872 →
Hire scoped to a whole tour, not one venue: the rigging, hoists, drapes or control kit a production carries, prepped and certified as one package and supported for the life of the run. Send the schedule and the technical rider and we build from there.
Yes. TSA kit has toured with international musicals and season-to-season spectaculars, including a complete rigging and automation package on a maintained lease: preventive maintenance, a 24-hour turnaround on essential faults and around-the-clock contact, sustained across international seasons.
Yes, scoped per tour and on request: load-in assistance at key venues through to on-the-road callouts backed by national coverage.
Scoped with the package. On past engagements TSA delivered to the first venue and collected from the last while the production moved the kit between cities. Where a tour needs more, freight and support are planned around the schedule.
Certification and test documentation for every piece of rated kit, in the cases, so each venue's compliance questions are answered on the spot. Engineering paperwork is scoped with the package.
Tell us how the show moves

Delivered to the first venue.
Collected from the last.

Send the cities, dates and technical rider. We check the national fleet, scope freight and support, and reply inside the working day.

Request availability for these dates → Read a project story →
  • We check. The cities and dates against the national fleet.
  • We prep. Picked, inspected and certified once as one kit.
  • We ship. Freight booked, support through the run.
Or call 1300 439 872 [email protected]