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.

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

Production engineering · Custom fabrication

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.

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Trusted on stages and in venues around Australia
Alder Construction Anglican Church Grammar School Annie Apollo Property Group Arts Queensland Back to the Future Beetlejuice Brisbane Powerhouse Brisbane Showgrounds Built Cairns Convention Centre Canberra Theatre Centre Capricorn Rigging Crossroads Live Crown Resorts Disney Diversified Edith Cowan University Encore Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre Griffith University Hamilton HOTA Home of the Arts Ipswich Civic Centre Lendlease The Lion King Livingstone Christian College Logan City Council Mackay Regional Council Melbourne Olympic Park Michael Cassel Group Microhire MJ The Musical Moulin Rouge Mueller College Multiplex National Gallery of Victoria Queensland University of Technology Res-X Universal Studios University of Adelaide University of Melbourne WA Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries Wicked Wollongong City Council
What we build

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.

01

Bespoke rigging solutions

Custom rigging components and mechanisms engineered for one show, where the standard kit will not do the move.

02

Moving platforms and effects

Wagons, trucks, revolves and integrated effects - scenic, automation and rigging built into one moving element.

03

Show-control interfaces

The custom kit wired to talk to your control system, so a bespoke mechanism runs cleanly off the cue sheet.

What custom fabrication is

One project. One
moving element.

Custom fabrication is the show-specific mechanical kit TSA designs and builds when nothing stock will do - bespoke rigging solutions, moving platforms and wagons, show-control interfaces and integrated mechanisms. When rigging, automation and scenic building have to merge into one custom solution, we design and build it under a single project.

Because rigging, automation, scenic and soft goods are all in-house, the people engineering the move are the people building it - the part that rigs, the part that moves and the part that gets seen are resolved together, not bolted on after. It is one part of Production Engineering.

Bespoke rigging Moving platforms Show-control interfaces Certified load paths One project
The illuminated Club Heart Portal on the Moulin Rouge stage. Photo: Michelle Grace Hunder.
The finished, gilded Club Heart Portal lit in the TSA Adelaide workshop, with the crew who built it standing in front
Our workshop · the crew On stage
Brief to built element Drawn here. Built here. Club Heart Portal, Moulin Rouge - drag to compare the finished portal in our Adelaide workshop with the same set lit on stage. Designed, cut, gilded and built in-house. On-stage photo Michelle Grace Hunder
0+ elements
Built for a single production (Beetlejuice)
0 in one
Rigging, automation and scenic merged
0+ yrs
Building the technical side of shows
AU
Designed and built in Australia
Why it holds up

Built to perform.

Merged into one element Engineered and certified Built to your design or the brief Holds up over the run
How it runs

How the build runs.

The design flows from the artistic requirements - the technical solution is built to safely serve the artistic goals. We engineer the mechanical solution, build it in-house, and prove the move before it reaches the venue - rigging, automation and scenic resolved together from the first sketch.

  1. Step 01

    Informed design

    The mechanism is shaped by rigging constraints, automation performance and the scenic look from the start, not retrofitted to them.

  2. 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.

  3. Step 03

    Integration and control

    Rigging, automation, scenic and the show-control interface assembled into one element, wired to run off the cue sheet.

  4. Step 04

    Test, verify & certify

    The move proven on the workshop floor; load-bearing elements verified and certified, with the documentation to prove it.

  5. Step 05

    Delivery and handover

    The element delivered ready to load in, with operation and maintenance documentation so the crew can run it.

It is one part of Production Engineering - production management, technical design, automation and performer flying all sit alongside it.

On real shows

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.

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FAQ

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.

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This is show-specific mechanical and rigging kit - bespoke rigging solutions, moving platforms and wagons, show-control interfaces and integrated mechanisms. 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 merge into one moving element, we carry it under a single project.
Yes. Load-bearing elements are engineered, verified and certified, with the documentation your venue and your insurer ask for.
Both. We build to your design, or engineer the mechanical solution from the brief up - rigging, automation and scenic interfaces resolved together before anything is cut.
Get it built right

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.

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