Custom Fabrication - TSA designs and builds the show-specific mechanical and rigging kit when nothing stock will do, merging rigging, automation and scenic building into one custom solution
When nothing stock will do, we build it.
When rigging, automation and scenic building have to merge into one custom solution, we design and build it under a single project - the show-specific kit that does not exist off the shelf.
The kit that does not
exist off the shelf.
Bespoke rigging solutions, moving platforms, wagons and trucks, show-control interfaces and integrated mechanisms - the show-specific mechanical kit built when nothing stock will do. Sets, props and scenery are built by our Sets, Scenery & Props workshop, and soft goods by our drape custom fabrication team. When all three have to move as one, we carry it here.
Bespoke rigging solutions
- Custom components
- Custom mechanisms
Custom rigging components and mechanisms engineered for one show, where the standard kit will not do the move.
Moving platforms and effects
- Wagons and trucks
- Revolves
- Integrated effects
Wagons, trucks, revolves and integrated effects - scenic, automation and rigging built into one moving element.
Show-control interfaces
- Wired to your control system
- Cue-sheet driven
The custom kit wired to talk to your control system, so a bespoke mechanism runs cleanly off the cue sheet.
One project. One
moving element.
When nothing stock will do, we design and build the show-specific mechanical kit under a single project, with rigging, automation and scenic resolved together:
- Bespoke rigging solutions
- Moving platforms and wagons
- Show-control interfaces
- Integrated mechanisms
Rigging, automation, scenic and soft goods are all in-house, so the people engineering the move are the people building it. One part of Production Engineering.
Built to perform.
Merged into one element
Rigging, automation and scenic resolved together.
Engineered and certified
Load-bearing elements engineered, verified, certified.
Built to your design or the brief
Build to your design, or engineer the mechanism from the brief up.
Holds up over the run
Built for high-cycle use and touring.
How the build runs.
Built to safely serve the artistic goals: we engineer the mechanism, build it in-house and prove the move before it reaches the venue.
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Step 01
Informed design
The mechanism is shaped by rigging constraints, automation performance and the scenic look from the start, not retrofitted to them.
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Step 02
In-house fabrication
The kit is fabricated in-house across steel, aluminium and machined components, with consultant engineers engaged where the job calls for it.
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Step 03
Integration and control
Rigging, automation, scenic and the show-control interface assembled into one element, wired to run off the cue sheet.
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Step 04
Test, verify & certify
The move proven on the workshop floor; load-bearing elements verified and certified, with the documentation to prove it.
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Step 05
Delivery and handover
The element delivered ready to load in, with operation and maintenance documentation so the crew can run it.
One part of Production Engineering, alongside production management, technical design, automation and performer flying.
Rigging, automation, scenic and soft goods are all in-house, so the people engineering the move are the people building it.
Built in our workshop curved steel revolve track sections being welded and fitted
Beetlejuice The Musical.
Fabricated to run, not just to look.
An automation wagon and scenic workshop build for Beetlejuice The Musical, kept show-ready across multiple international seasons.
Read the case study →Built when nothing
stock would do.
For Beetlejuice we built 30+ scenic and mechanical elements - mobile wagons, large portals and integrated effects - designed, built and proven in Australia.
See all projects
36 hoists, one ceiling, one desk.
A 36-axis hoist array and five-chord box truss - bespoke overhead rigging built to the Great Hall, not the catalogue.
Read the project
4,000 shows. Zero missed cues.
Bespoke flying rigs and automation built for one show, run for seven-plus years without a missed cue.
Read the project
A stage the school can run.
Bespoke mechanisms built and handed over so staff and casual crew can run them safely, term after term.
Explore schoolsCustom steel and fabrication made for the venue.
One-off steel and fabricated parts built in our workshop and fitted in venues.
Questions
about custom fabrication.
If your question isn't here, talk to our team and we'll come back with the right answer for your show.
Call 1300 439 872 →Tell us the
move.
Send the move, the cue sheet and the venue. We'll engineer and build the mechanism - bespoke, certifiable, and proven before it reaches the floor.
- We talk. The move, the cue sheet and the venue.
- We engineer. The mechanism, bespoke and certifiable.
- We build. Proven before it reaches the floor.