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The Great
Shakespeare Showdown
In Silver City
Draw your quills and polish your pickaxes for The Great Shakespeare Showdown! Cheer, hiss and boo as England’s Sir Charles GoodKnight and America’s Mrs. Twelvetrees battle to be crowned The Wild West’s Best Bard 1882.
Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Tickets on sale April 1st
Aug 7 - 22 ( not 9 or 16 )
All shows at 15:10 ( 55 minutes)
The Haldane Theatre
theSpace@Surgeons' Hall
Venue # 53
Playwright Dennis Elkins
Director Penny Cole
Stage Manager Veronica Legler
Assistant Producer Rachael Henney
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 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.
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