Our work
Cook Thinks Again
James Cook hosts a reflective walking tour of significant historical sites, two hundred and fifty years after his death.
Surrealist Soiree
A bespoke performance by an imaginary troupe of artists, created to interact with audiences at an event hosted by Te Papa as part of the Surrealist Art touring gallery exhibition.
Dress Up Jam
The Dress Up Jam marquee is an open, street-level performance space, where the friendly attendants invite passers-by to dress up, act up and wig out, or just... whatever!
The Feedback Machine
The Feedback Machine V1.0 is a prototype design for capturing qualitative responses to our work, in a way that is difficult to achieve using a standard survey method.
Things At Home
Things At Home is a video series created in Aotearoa’s COVID-19 lockdown of 2020 by Barbarian’s Artistic Director Jo Randerson.
Grand Opening
Grand Opening is a site-specific promenade performance presented in your city’s favourite historic theatre - a whirlwind tour of the building's forgotten spaces.
Albatross Mating Dance
A specially commissioned interactive dance performance for the Te Taiao After Dark: Sex and Larvae on Valentine's event at Te Papa.
Soft ‘n’ Hard
A complex, challenging and riotously funny exploration of the tensions and imbalances between male and female gender roles in a modern world.
Sing It To My Face
An intergenerational confrontation on stage laying bare how old and young really feel about each other.
The Kids’ Election
A polling booth especially for tamariki - making civic participation fun, creative and accessible for a tough crowd.
Political Cutz
A pop-up hair salon offering cheap coffee and free professional haircuts to people in exchange for political discussion in the lead up to the General Election.
White Elephant
Three bloated oligarchs enter a new world and set about making it their own. A chorus of masked Zanni (servants) attend to and perform for them. White Elephant collides three dancers and three actors in a ‘bastardised’ commedia/ clown/ mask performance.