Directed by Maggie Woolley

Prenzie Players is thrilled to return to downtown Rock Island! We will perform our next show, Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare, in The District of Rock Island.

Join Prenzie Players on Saturday, January 9th, 2010 from 730-1030pm for an evening of food, music, and live theater as we celebrate last year's accomplishments and look forward to the coming year's opportunities!

Our program will include a performance of Cyclops by Euripides -- the only known recorded Ancient Greek Satyr play, at which you'll laugh as much as you cried at Euripides' Trojan Women this previous Spring. We'll also treat you to a dramatic staging of Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem Ulysses.

Written by Mike Schulz
Original Review

Roughly 10 minutes before the Prenzie Players' presentation of The Winter's Tale gets underway, there's a brief, improvisational scene between the Bohemian king Polixenes (David Furness) and Prince Mamillius (Stephanie Moeller), the young son of the king and queen of Sicily.

Story Stephanie De Pasquale
Original Review

The Prenzie Players’ season opener, “The Winter’s Tale,” is a Shakespearean comedy that starts off in the vein of a tragedy. It then takes the audience on a roller coaster of emotions as the major characters deal with jealously and death, followed by the comedic relief comes from ad-libbing minor characters and a happy ending.

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PRENZIE NOTES
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Prenzie Players is, for the first time, selling tickets in advance. Tickets granting admission to all three season 8 Prenzie Player productions -- The Winter's Tale and Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare, and Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand -- are available for only $24.
Wait, you say.
$24 is what admission to three Prenzie shows would cost anyway. Where's the discount?

Directed by JC Luxton.

Friday November 13- Post show discussion immediately after!
Saturday November 14
Sunday November 15 Matinee at 2pm
Friday November 20
Saturday November 21
Sunday November 22

Immediately after the Friday, November 13th production, a post-show discussion focusing on the specific topics relevant both to the play being produced and to the audience viewing it. The discussions feature the director and cast of the production fielding questions and comments from audience members.

The Winter’s Tale will be presented at

Original Review

The Prenzie Players' presentation of Euripides' The Trojan Women, adapted by Richard Lattimore, runs just over an hour, and I can't imagine who would want it to last longer than that. There's so much anguish and grief on display, and the material appears so deeply felt by director Jill Sullivan-Bennin's cast, that the production leaves you not just haunted, but shaken; it's questionable whether either the actors or the audience could endure two hours of such extreme emotional states.

The great city of Troy has fallen, her men slaughtered by the crafty Greeks. Thrown into a make-shift prison, along with their surviving children, the women who lived through the massacre mourn their loss and dread their future as slaves, concubines, and forced brides to the conquering Greek soldiers.

Friday, May 22—Post show discussion immediately after!
Saturday, May 23
Sunday, May 24—Matinee only 2pm!
Friday, May 29
Saturday, May 30
Sunday, May 31

Beatrice is unmarried and unapproachable, famous for the sting of her wit.
Benedick is a soldier and bachelor, confirmed in his contempt for romance.
Beatrice scorns Benedick.
Benedick mocks Beatrice.
A lively showdown between the sexes ensues.

Friday, March 6—Post show discussion immediately after!
Saturday, March 7
Sunday, March 8—Matinee only 2pm!
Friday, March 13
Saturday, March 14
Sunday, March 15

Immediately after the Friday, March 6th production, a post-show discussion focusing on the specific topics relevant both to the play being produced and to the audience viewing it. The discussions feature the director and cast of the production fielding questions and comments from audience members.

Much Ado About Nothing will be presented at The Village Theatre (formerly Turner Hall) in the Village of East Davenport, 2113 E. 11th Street Davenport, Iowa. Doors open at 7:30 PM., curtain at 8:00 PM.—except on March 8th, when doors open at 1:30PM, with curtain at 2:00PM. Tickets available at door only. Tickets $8 for all. For more information, email info@prenzieplayers.com.

Please remember latecomers will not be seated.

Prenzie Players Present

Othello by William Shakespeare
Directed by Cait Bodenbender

A highly charged tale of jealousy, revenge and murder, Othello has been called "Shakespeare's most intense play". It is a story of love, jealousy, prejudice, evil and the destruction of innocence.

Show dates: Friday to Sunday both weekends! October 12-14 and 19-21, 2007 After opening night's performance there will be a cast and production staff Q & A immediately after the show!

Othello will be presented upstairs in The Masonic Temple, 420 18th St., Rock Island, IL. Doors open at 7:30 PM., curtain at 8:00 PM on Oct 12-13 and 19-21. A matinee will be held on October 14 with doors open at 2:30 PM and curtain at 3 PM with no evening show. Tickets available at door only. Tickets are $8 for all.