Bard Productions, based in
Wellington
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, New Zealand, is a theatre company best known for offering site-specific and 'adventure theatre.' The company has been in operation since 2007.
Performances
''Frogs Under the Waterfront'', an adaptation of
Aristophanes
Aristophanes (; grc, Ἀριστοφάνης, ; c. 446 – c. 386 BC), son of Philippus, of the deme Kydathenaion ( la, Cydathenaeum), was a comic playwright or comedy-writer of ancient Athens and a poet of Old Attic Comedy. Eleven of his for ...
' ''The Frogs'', was the company's first successful site-specific production. The performance took place underneath the Wellington waterfront, with the audience in paddle boats. The company won a number of awards for the production and attracted significant local and national media attention.
Two years later the company produced ''Quarantine'', a show about the human quarantine patients who lived and died on
Matiu-Somes Island in the Wellington harbour. The audience was taken to the island at night in a chartered ferry, and the performance itself took place in the forests of the island and in an historical quarantine building.
In 2013 ''A Tempest off Matiu-Somes Island'', an adaptation of Shakespeare's ''
The Tempest'' held in a chartered ferry which took audience members to the island and in a large animal quarantine station abandoned in the 1980s.
In 2014 the company mounted a return season of "A Tempest off Matiu-Somes Island". It was made public in January 2014 that the company had joined with the
New Zealand Department of Conservation
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An advisory body, the New Zealand Conservation Au ...
and th
Kaitiaki Boardto secure a 10-year concession to stage theatrical events and performances on Matiu-Somes Island during the summer months.
Other Projects
In mid-2013 the company expanded to Melbourne, Australia and opened up the corporate teambuilding and murder mystery branch of the company
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Theatre companies in New Zealand
New Zealand-centric
2007 establishments in New Zealand