Berikaoba (Georgian: ბერიკაობა) is an improvised masqueraded folk theatre in Georgia, stemming from the pagan festivity of fertility and rebirth.

Animal skulls, tails, feathers, horns, pumpkins, ribbons and bells are used to add colorfulness to the scene.

The procession of berikas – accompanied by sounds of bagpipes (stviri) – move door-to-door to pick wine, honey, floor, meat and other victuals served by hosts.

As berikas try to resuscitate the groom with help of healing water, herbs and minerals, the news spreads about the abduction of Kekela.

[2][4] The similar tradition, keenoba (ყეენობა, from "the Khan"), satirizing the foreign invaders of Georgia and later the Imperial Russian officialdom, enjoyed particular popularity in the 19th-century Tbilisi and its environs.