Lack of support?

After reading some comments about "Into the Woods" on the review forum - I was shocked to hear that Yellow Glass are having trouble finding audiences as well! We just completed "The Canterbury Tales" at the Rechabites Hall - also with good reviews and fantastic audience responses (from the few that bothered to come along, that is.) Class Act & Bare Naked Theatres are paying the actors therefore our production values have to be pretty low-budget (this is also the case because we have to tour our shows in a van in the southwest for 2 weeks) When we went to Mandurah on 30 May - we had almost 400 in the audience! Not much less than we had for the the ENTIRE 3 week season at the Rechies. I personally go to see community & professional shows as well as co-ops. I saw very few community theatre people in our audiences - despite the fact that Stephen Lee is a prominent and respected figure in the circle - and only a very small handful of fellow professionals. Where is the support, folks? I guess what I am saying is - if we can't support each other, how can we expect to grow our audience base for all types of theatre? (And let's face it, many of us cross the boundaries between pro, amateur & profit share on a regular basis.) Luckily our next production - Macbeth at the Subi Arts Centre, at least has some great audiences - thanks to Perth schools! I am interested to hear how others feel about this. Angelique Malcolm