Who are we?

We're a circus company with roots in Adelaide, Australia. We utilise an honest approach to performance to create work with a focus on human connection and acrobatic virtuosity. Through this, we hope to maintain an exceptional and diverse artistic program. After forming 2009 as a group of young Adelaide artists with a passion for circus and physical theatre, we’ve spent the past 13 years growing steadily and creating six critically acclaimed main stage works.

Our Shows

A Simple Space, our first work, achieved huge international success, receiving multiple awards and having performed close to 1000 times across 34 countries. Our subsequent work, Backbone, has been touring for the past 5 years receiving awards (including 3 Helpmann award nominations) and critical acclaim worldwide. Out Of Chaos… premiered in the 2019 Adelaide Festival, receiving the 2019 Helpmann Award for Best Physical Theatre.

Our most recent creations The Pulse and MACRO are our largest and most ambitious works thus far and probably the largest contemporary circus works in Australian history! These have elevated our artistic profile worldwide.

We’ve been honoured to see the circus industry, wider arts community and audiences worldwide embracing the unique playfulness, honesty and physical mastery in our work.

Alongside our onstage work, we deeply value engaging with both our immediate and wider community through workshops and education. 

Our Artistic Approach

Our work strives to nurture human connection while challenging the genre of circus through conceptual sophistication and acrobatic virtuosity. We employ an honest approach to performance, illuminating the complexities of humanity through genuinity, humour and physical prowess.

Our predominantly ensemble driven creative process encourages our artists to engage deeply with the work they are inhabiting and allows true investment in and commitment to the company's core values.

As a leader of contemporary circus in Australia, we feel it is our responsibility to continue to challenge circus as an artform.

Adelaide born and bred, Lachlan has been involved in active and creative pursuits his whole life, starting circus classes at Cirkidz at just eight years old.

It was here where Lachlan’s passion for performance and training was developed, and formed the friendships that forged the beginnings of GOM.

Lachlan’s love for the circus was solidified when he performed in a show called Freaky at the 2007 Come Out Festival for kids in Adelaide, as it gave him a chance to perform with professional adult artists from Circus Monoxide and with their CirKidz trainer, Triton, who also became a founding member of GOM.

His first professional role was as a trainer for Cirkidz, and as a street performer at many of the various arts festivals in Adelaide. The turning point in Lachlan’s career came in 2013, when he and the GOM team travelled to the UK to perform at the Edinburgh Fringe.

As a founding member of GOM, Lachlan’s role within the company ranges from leader, mentor, and creative director, to designer and administrator. He is most often involved in conversations about the innovation and creative quality of GOMs work and sees this as his major contribution to the company.

His favourite moment on stage was performing A Simple Space at the 2013 Tasmanian circus festival, as it was the first time GOM had ever performed the work, in front of peers and the community, and was terrifyingly exhilarating!