EggFruit
Barbarian Productions
Thu 18 Feb, Fri 19 Feb, Sat 20 Feb, Sun 21 Feb, Thu 25 Feb, Fri 26 Feb, Sat 27 Feb, Sun 28 Feb
Various, see below
Time:
Various, see below
Queens Wharf, Wellington Central, Wellington 6011
Access:
casual, join in
Is it an egg or a fruit? A seedpod or a spacepod? Step inside Barbarian’s mysterious nest-like capsule and add your voice to an exchange of views around a topical question. Charismatic hosts will guide you through the experience and help you interact with this intriguing object as it pops up in locations around Pōneke.
Eggfruit is a mobile recording booth that gathers and broadcasts the thoughts and ideas of the people of Aotearoa New Zealand. It’s a space for exchange and reflection, developed as an alternative method of public consultation around issues of national identity (eg. the failed flag referendum of 2016). Eggfruit offers an experimental new approach.
18-21 Feb, Under the sails, TSB Arena Queen's Wharf
Thu - 12pm - 2pm and 4pm - 6pm
Fri - 12pm - 2pm, 4pm - 6pm and 7pm - 9pm
Sat - 11am - 1pm, 3pm - 5pm and 7pm - 9pm
Sun - 11am - 1pm and 3pm - 5pm
25th - 28th Feb, Te Papa Forecourt
Thu - 12pm - 2pm and 4pm - 6pm
Fri - 12pm - 2pm, 4pm - 6pm and 7pm - 9pm
Sat - 11am - 1pm, 3pm - 5pm and 7pm - 9pm
Sun - 11am - 1pm and 3pm - 5pm
Barbarian are makers of mould-breaking experiences and live performances that bring people together in radically playful ways, based in Ponēke, Te Whanganui-a-Tara (Wellington), Aotearoa.
Barbarian Productions is led by artistic director Jo Randerson (ONZM) and co-director Thomas LaHood. Barbarian gratefully receives investment funding from Creative New Zealand and is an accredited Living Wage employer. They are passionate about creating sustainable working models for the arts.
Barbarian were the winners of the Wellington Airport Community Award for Arts and Culture in Wellington City, 2017. At the 2016 Wellington Theatre Awards they received the Judges Wildcard for their ‘high quality and inventive performance that inspires many other practitioners and their enormous generosity and the investment in the arts community and the wider Wellington community’. In 2019 they won Best Director (Jo Randerson) and Absolutely Positively Most Original Production for Captain Cook Thinks Again.
