By David Burke
Quad City Times

Original Review

Like about 85 percent of the populace, I only know the shorthand version of "Cyrano de Bergerac": Guy with long nose helps friend woo woman who big nose really desires, feeding other guy lines while she's on balcony.
(That and the 1987 Steve Martin movie "Roxanne," which contains a sliver of Edmond Rostand's original storyline.)

By Thom White
River Cities Reader

Original Review

Our next show, Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand Translated and Adapted by Anthony Burgess will be once again in The District of Rock Island.

directed by Aaron Sullivan

Friday May 14- Post show discussion immediately after!
Saturday May 15
Sunday May 16 Matinee at 2pm

Wednesday May 19 an evening performance has been added for mid week!

Friday May 21
Saturday May 22
Sunday May 23

Immediately after the Friday, May 14th 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.

We are unable to accept reservations and tickets are only available at the door.

Cyrano de Bergerac will be presented in the District of Rock Island at 1616 2nd Avenue. Doors open at 7:30 PM., curtain at 8:00 PM.—except on May 16th , when doors open at 1:30PM, with curtain at 2:00PM. . Tickets are $8 and are available only at the door. Ticket sales begin at 7:30pm, 1:30pm for the matinee, and seating is limited. For more information, email info@prenzieplayers.com

by Stephanie De Pasquale
Quad City Times

Original Review

“Troilus and Cressida” features far more war and betrayal than love, but the Prenzie Players and Maggie Woolley, in her directing debut, have no trouble creating characters the audience can’t help but invest themselves in, despite their dirty deeds.
Shakespeare’s play is set seven years into the Trojan War, but before the infamous wooden horse is made.

WRITTEN BY THOM WHITE
River Cities Reader

Original Review

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?