SHAUN Parker is back in Australia. He has been on the road, touring Europe with his production of King: his first overseas tour in four years. “[The company received] its first invitations to tour to Europe after the premiere season of King at the 2019 Sydney Mardi Gras, before COVID shut everything down,” he explains. “We were supposed to tour everywhere,” he adds. “Instead, we only got to four countries other than Australia.”
Parker is no stranger to European tours. As a dancer he toured throughout the 1990s under the esteemed Meryl Tankard, as a member of Meryl Tankard Australian Dance Theatre’s ensemble. Thanks to prominent roles in Tankard’s works early in his career,
