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Sydney Sellout Pub Shakespeare Company Bar’d Work is Back with Twelfth Night

Source: Bar'd Work

Archived 4 Nov 2019 - Posted: 5 Sep 2019

Following a sold out Sydney season, pub theatre company Bar'd Work are back for season 2 with the famous comedy Twelfth Night in Wagga Wagga as part of the inaugural Shakesbeer Sessions . Expect fast, funny and irreverent 90-minute Shakespeare, performed in a selection of Sydney’s most iconic pub venues.

The night of short, sharp Shakespeare reimagines the classic comedy of shipwreck, mistaken identity and lust. Love triangles left and right as a stranded Viola, enters Orsino's service to woo Olivia yet falls in love with him in the process. With an array of weird and wonderful characters, one of Shakespeare's most loved comedies comes to life with a pint and pub grub. More romance than The Bachelor, better writing than Home & Away, and actors that will share a drink with the audience (before, after, and during).

“Very funny. They include crazy pop songs and people stand up and sing and dance. It’s
absolutely wild and being performed by some of the very best Shakespeare actors around.”
– Elissa Blake, Arts Tuesday on Eastside Radio

Twelfth Night stars Damien Carr as Sir Toby Belch, Jarryd Dobson as Sebastian, Dominic
Gruenewald as Orsino / Sir Andrew, Eddie Orton as Feste, Emma O’Sullivan as Maria /
Sea Captain, Kian Pitman as Officer / Priest, Shannon Ryan as Viola, Chelsea Zeller as
Olivia and Timothy Walker as Malvolio / Antonio.

This production is directed by Chris Huntly-Turner, and produced by James Haxby , and
Natalie Lines .