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EggFruit
Wellington 2021
Barbarian Productions
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.
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.
