Bare Witness is a Canberra-based company led by Christopher Samuel Carroll, producing physically-charged theatre that draws on the full resources of the actor's craft: immediate, unflinching, baring souls with the bare bones. This is poetry in motion. This is the word made flesh.

As artists based in the nation’s capital, we believe in the need for challenging, politically-conscious theatre that confronts the major issues of our time through the lens of the human experience. We make theatre that matters.

Well-established as one of the region’s leading theatre companies, Bare Witness has earned a reputation for inventive theatre that spans a dizzying range of styles and genres. Their productions regularly tour interstate, with four tours to Melbourne in the past two years. Recent productions have included the cyberpunk epic I Have No Enemies; the deliciously dark comedy SAUCE; a smouldering drama about the dark arts of marketing, Smokescreen; and Carroll’s latest solo turn, the rollicking adventure The Cadaver Palaver.