Prenzie 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!

Prenzie 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

By 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.

Written 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.

Daily 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.

"The Merchant of Venice explores the interrelations of intolerance and acceptance, of justice and mercy, and of lucre and love."

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The 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.

Original Review

By 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.

Original 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

Original Review

Written 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.