

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: The Shakespeare Solitaire: Murder Mystery
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 04 Dec, 2025 at 06:30 pm
- **Event Description**: Back by popular demand after sell-out performances in August!

It’s 1922 and you’re invited to Colchester’s best kept-secret – Solanio’s Swinging Speakeasy – for a very special event: the auction of the infamous Shakespeare Solitaire.

This priceless diamond is rumoured to have been gifted to William Shakespeare by Queen Elizabeth I herself… but the jewel also carries with it a curse, for every one of its owners have died in mysterious circumstances.

Just two weeks’ ago, the body of the Solitaire’s most recent owner – renowned actor Henry Lear – was discovered at a Guildford auction house. Tonight, his only daughter is seeking to sell it and rid the family of its terrible curse.

But will Mr Lear’s death be the end, or is it just the beginning?

Join the award-winning Guildford Shakespeare Company for a fun and interactive evening of intrigue and deception, as you work out whodunnit.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/colchester/the-shakespeare-solitaire-murder-mystery/200029206369313
- **Event Categories**: art, theatre
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 0

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: https://www.mercurytheatre.co.uk/event/the-shakespeare-solitaire-murder-mystery/?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=colchester-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Colchester
- **state**: EN
- **country**: United Kingdom
- **location**: Balkerne Gate, CO1 1PT Colchester, United Kingdom
- **lat**: 51.8896
- **long**: 0.89442
- **full address**: Balkerne Gate, CO1 1PT Colchester, United Kingdom, Colchester, United Kingdom

## Event Organizer details

- **affiliate_id**: 2
- **organizer**: Mercury Theatre Colchester (https://allevents.in/org/mercury-theatre-colchester/24827911)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Thu, 04 Dec, 2025 at 06:30 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Balkerne Gate, CO1 1PT Colchester, United Kingdom, Colchester, United Kingdom
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Mercury Theatre Colchester
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, theatre
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about The Shakespeare Solitaire: Murder Mystery ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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