Bard Productions, based in

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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

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' ''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 ''

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'' 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

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Kaitiaki Board
to 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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