Prenzie Players Announce 2009 Twelfth Night Gala Fundraiser
Submitted by LadyM on December 9, 2008 - 10:25amPrenzie Players will be hosting their third annual fundraising event on Saturday, January 10, 2008 from 8-11pm.
The event will be held at The Village Theatre (formerly Turner Hall) in the Village of East Davenport, 2113 E. 11th Street Davenport, Iowa. A silent auction will held throughout the evening as well as a scenes, enacted poetry and live music.
Tickets are $15 per person; this includes hors d'oeuvres and drinks.
For reservations please email us at gala@prenzieplayers.com
or call 309.912.3843. Please bring your family and friends: all are invited!
Announcing a Verse Workshop and Auditions for Much Ado About Nothing and Trojan Women
Submitted by LadyM on November 18, 2008 - 3:17pmPrenzie Players will be holding a Verse Workshop in conjunction with Auditions for the March production of "Much Ado About Nothing" by William Shakespeare and May's production of "Trojan Women" by Euripides. The workshop will examine selected text from both shows and introduce a few tidbits on how to successfully prepare for auditions.
Verse Workshop
December 1, 2008: 7-9pm
Auditions for "Much Ado About Nothing" AND "Trojan Women"
Readings from the scripts with other actors.
Feel free to bring a prepared monologue, but not necessary.
Wednesday and Thursday, December 3, 4: 6-9pm
Prenzies’ ‘Merchant’ production makes Shakespeare relevant today
Submitted by LadyM on October 23, 2008 - 10:43amBy Stephanie De Pasquale
The acting begins before the audience steps into the Village Theater. Andy Koski (Antonio) and Stephanie Moeller (Salarina) are stationed on the sidewalk leading to the theater in the Village of East Davenport, dressed in church clothes with Koski holding a Bible.
The two try to convince play-goers not to attend the production because of its lewd language and situations. When you brush by them, Koski says he’ll pray for you.
Natty "Merchant": "The Merchant of Venice,"
Submitted by LadyM on October 23, 2008 - 10:30amWritten by Mike Schulz
After six seasons of reverse-gender casting, anachronistic details, audience interaction, and unapologetic tweaking and trimming of classical works, the happily untraditional Prenzie Players have, with their production of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, moved in a truly subversive direction: They've gone traditional. Sort of.
"Merchant Plying Its Wares in Davenport"
Submitted by LadyM on October 20, 2008 - 5:36pmDaily Dispatch article by Julie Jensen
The Prenzie Players have moved to a new venue for their latest show. They'll be performing Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice” in the Village Theatre, the former Turner's Club in the Village of East Davenport.
Cait Bodenbender,director, says the company -- which has popped up all over the place -- “will use the thrust stage and bring the audience right up to the edge. An aisle around it will be the streets of Venice.
Prenzie Players present The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
Submitted by LadyM on October 3, 2008 - 1:37pm"The Merchant of Venice explores the interrelations of intolerance and acceptance, of justice and mercy, and of lucre and love."
Friday, October 17 Post show discussion immediately after!
Saturday, October 18
Sunday, October 19
Friday, October 24
Saturday, October 25
Sunday, October 26
The Merchant of Venice Auditions!!
Submitted by LadyM on August 6, 2008 - 12:47pmThe Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
directed by Cait Bodenbender
Auditions will be held on Friday, August 22nd 6-9pm and Saturday the 23rd 1-4pm at the Village Theatre (formerly Turner Hall), 2113 E. 11th Street Davenport, Iowa.
Call backs will be held Sunday, August 24th 1-4 at the same location.
Prenzie Players presenting little-known 'Life's A Dream' review by Julie Jensen
Submitted by LadyM on May 15, 2008 - 3:55pmBy Julie Jensen
Getting with the program in a Prenzie Players production is easier when they do Shakespeare than when they choose a little-known 17th century Spanish play, “Life’s A Dream.”
You usually know the plot in Shakespeare, but the convoluted story line of the play by Pedro Calderon de la Barca is outside the experience of most of us.
'and then you fly'....Ruby Nancy's review of Life's a Dream
Submitted by LadyM on May 15, 2008 - 3:52pmOriginal review
LIFE’S A DREAM
Running time: 2 hours and 25 minutes, including two intermissions (during which additional scenes are performed), plus an additional half-hour preshow that begins at 7:30 each evening the play is performed
Animal Magnetism: Life's a Dream review by Mike Schulz
Submitted by LadyM on May 14, 2008 - 3:43pmWritten by Mike Schulz
Wednesday, 14 May 2008
Say what you will about the Prenzie Players' latest presentation, but you can't say that the classical-theatre troupe, with its production of Pedro Calderón de la Barca's Life's a Dream, is merely resting on its laurels.
