THE GREAT SHAKESPEARE SHOWDOWN to Play Edinburgh Fringe
Set in a 19th-century Colorado silver mining town obsessed with Shakespeare, the play will run at The Space at Surgeons' Hall during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Dates: 8/7/2026 - 8/22/2026
Flying Solo! Presents
USA
Edinburgh,
Phone: +44 (0)131 226 0000
Tickets: £10
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.
Set in a 19th-century Colorado silver mining town obsessed with Shakespeare, the play will run at The Space at Surgeons' Hall during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Flying Solo! Presents will stage THE GREAT SHAKESPEARE SHOWDOWN at the Haldane Theatre at theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall, pitting a British thespian against an American actress in a Wild West-set battle of Bardic wit.
Flying Solo! Presents will stage THE GREAT SHAKESPEARE SHOWDOWN at the Haldane Theatre at theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall, pitting a British thespian against an American actress in a Wild West-set battle of Bardic wit set in 1882 Leadville, Colorado.
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