The Great Shakespeare Showdown

Flying Solo! Presents

Draw your quills, sharpen your wits and polish your pickaxes for the Great Shakespeare Showdown! Cheer, hiss and boo with the silver miners of Leadville, Colorado through this highfalutin verbal duel as the acclaimed Shakespeareans and renowned thespians, England’s Sir Charles GoodKnight and America’s Mrs. Twelvetrees, do battle using Shakespeare’s own words to be crowned The Wild West’s Best Bard 1882.

• Theatre
• £5.00 - £10.00
• 7-22 August 2026
• 55 minutes
• theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall
• Haldane Theatre
• Age 8+
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  Audience participation, Audiences are encouraged to cheer their favorite and boo the opposition. Audience may also be asked to take on the characters of certain Leadville dignitaries. Recorded gun shot.

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