A high-voltage, high-vulnerability comedy performance by Artistic Director Jo Randerson.

A live event experience for Wellington audiences: part game, part show, part picnic - a day out like you’ve never had before!

A mobile space for exchange and reflection, developed as an alternative method of public consultation around issues of national identity.

A series of short interviews with artists, sharing five objects of importance in their everyday lives.

A mysterious ‘something’ has appeared in the depths of the local golf course… and nobody knows what to do about it.

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.

An open, street-level performance space, where the friendly attendants invite passers-by to dress up, act up and wig out, or just... whatever!

A prototype design for capturing qualitative responses to our work, in a way that is difficult to achieve using a standard survey method.

A video series created in Aotearoa’s COVID-19 lockdown of 2020 by Barbarian’s Artistic Director Jo Randerson.

A specially commissioned interactive dance performance for the Te Taiao After Dark: Sex and Larvae on Valentine's event at Te Papa.

An intergenerational confrontation on stage laying bare how old and young really feel about each other.

A polling booth especially for tamariki - making civic participation fun, creative and accessible for a tough crowd.

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.

A devised ensemble work drawing on the hopes and fears of its young performers.

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.

An outdated organisation of reapers seek consultation on their public image. Over a period of time the Grim Reapers change their appearance and manner to try and reflect the public's suggestions.

A bridal boutique for all genders. We invited members of the public to join us in our temporary boutique of 100 wedding dresses to try on a dress or two and tell us what marriage meant to them.

A play by Jo Randerson about life, work, death and who keeps using up all the Milo.