Our second season, 2003-2004, opened on Halloween night with Hamlet and in the spring of '04 with Cymbeline. Hamlet was our first performance at the Rock Island Housing Authority building. Basically a small, concrete floored room with windows on one wall and drywall on the other. It was just a half-block east of our first location and served us well for several shows.

Hamlet Click for Script or Reviews.

Hamlet was directed by Cait Woolley with fight choreography by Aaron Sullivan.

Here are all the Prenzie-cut scripts from every show we've done.

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Prenzie Players' 'Cymbeline' breaks Shakespeare mold
QUAD-CITY TIMES By Erin Siebers | Friday, March 26, 2004

The room is very unremarkable. There are no pictures to adorn the walls and no curtains to set the stage apart. The chairs are arranged is some semblance of rows, yet structure is lacking in all forms.

It doesn't seem that a manuscript of one of the most well-known playwrights could be produced in this humble room. Yet the Prenzie Players have done just that.

This austere place is where old plays are being produced with a new twist, and theater is finding its roots in the literature of old. One time a group of people were chatting and decided that the Quad-Cities needed Shakespeare during the winter.