Farty Bard Festival - Burra May 5 - 7 2023
You are invited to Farty Bard Festival - a delightfully silly weekend of Shakespeare & friends. 5 visiting companies present concerts, plays and workshops. A fun, friendly and flatulent festival set in the beautiful Heritage listed SA town of Burra. Buy tickets for the full weekend, or for individual shows. For more info, check out the full program, and discover the range of free workshops on offer throughout the festival at www.fartybard.com.
SHAKESPEARE IN THE NORTH - Farty Bard Theatre
Sunday 7 May 2023
$30/$15 Butterfly Theatre finishes the festival with a flourish, drawing together Shakespeare’s best bits - Songs, Sonnets and Speeches exploring Love and Loss, with original music threaded through the show - composed for Butterfly Theatre by Burra's own Jodie O'Regan. Directed by Tony Knight, the show has toured wineries, festivals, theatres, pubs and parks and now comes North, with Shakespeare's insults added for the occasion. Part of the Farty Bard Festival - see the full program at fartybard.com .
Burra Town Hall
Farty Bard Festival Full Weekend Ticket 5 -7 May
Friday 5 May 2023
$100/$50 Come and soak up the festival weekend with a full ticket to the concerts and plays - Il Festino, A Medieval & Renaissance Showcase, Love Flatulence & Other Problems, Shakespeare In The North.
Full program of concerts, plays and the free workshops offered throughout the weekend at www.fartybard.com
Burra Town Hall
LOVE, FLATULENCE & OTHER PROBLEMS - Farty Bard Play
Saturday 6 May 2023
$30/$15 Tony Knight is bringing a performing troupe from South Australia’s Actors’ Studio, to present a variety show of comic Shakespearean scenes, including a very very very abridged Hamlet. Burra local and theatre academic Dr Will Peterson will present a pre-show talk, with tips on ‘getting into’ Shakespeare. Part of the Farty Bard Festival - see the full program at fartybard.com .
Burra Town Hall
A MEDIEVAL & RENAISSANCE MUSICAL SHOWCASE - Farty Bard Music
Saturday 6 May 2023
$30/$15 Travel back in time to the Middle Ages and Renaissance to hear music Shakespeare might have heard. From the only surviving song by a female Troubadour to a gorgeous lament by Anne Boleyn. Not to mention jolly folk songs and merry dances. Come to hear very early music and its stories, as well as see authentic early instruments including lute, viol, crumhorn, cornemuse, vielle, rebec, oud and psaltery. Presented by Lyrebyrd Concort & Cacofonix. Part of the Farty Bard Festival - see the full program at fartybard.com .
Burra Town Hall
IL FESTINO - Farty Bard Music
Friday 5 May 2023
$30/$15 A musical comedy Elizabethan style - enjoy the magic and nonsense of this wonderful acappella work composed in 1609 by Banchieri - a monk from Italy. It's raucous and rowdy - cheeky and beautiful. from sublime love poetry to drinking songs to a canon of ridiculous animal noises. Sung in English by The Farty Bard Singers. Part of the Farty Bard Festival - see the full program at fartybard.com .
Burra Town Hall