Photos from our production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream
Produced March 2006
Performed at the Rock Island Masonic Lodge

Season four, 2005-2006, opened with What you Will at the old Montgomery Ward building in downtown Moline.

What You Will was directed by Stephanie Burrough.

What You Will (aka Twelfth Night) click for script or for Reviews

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

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Prenzie presents sexy, silly 'Dream’
By Ruby Nancy | Thursday, April 06, 2006

Prenzie Players’ “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” opened the weekend of April Fools Day — a perfect time for beginning a play about general silliness and trickery of all kinds.

The production itself also approaches a form of perfection, too, delivering loads of broad, physical humor and slivers of sly wit with equal ease.

The script, which is basically a late-night romp through the woods, also has an easy sensuality about it — and the Prenzie version of that aspect of the show is also fluid and well-done.

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New group shows promise
Ruby Nancy | Wednesday, March 19, 2003

Prenzie starts with Shakespeare's 'Measure'

There once was a time when theater folks were mostly traveling bands of players who would put on a show wherever they were pulling out something already written, using props and costumes on hand, using actors for whatever roles cropped up, and creating a "stage" from whatever space was available.

Thank goodness some traditions never die.

The Prenzie Players, a brand-new theater group in the Quad-Cities dedicated to producing the works of William Shakespeare, launch their first show this weekend, and the topnotch "Measure for Measure" is I sincerely hope the first of many, many more to come.

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A year of women, a year of the dramatic
Thursday, December 28, 2006
By Ruby Nancy

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Director Cait Bodenbender put together a great “Midsummer Night’s Dream,” which featured a slew of sexy (and mostly female) fairies. Aaron Sullivan and Karl Bodenbender were also standouts as sprites in this delightful show, and Sullivan also did very strong work in “Richard II.” Stephanie Burroughs had the title role in “Richard II,” and her fantastic work was at the heart of this show, which also featured great work by Maggie Wooley and Linnea Ridolfi (who were top-notch in “Midsummer Night’s Dream,” too).

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Written by Mike Schulz
Wednesday, 05 April 2006
A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Rock Island Masonic Temple Theatre audiences are often witness to romance and, with the right director and performers, occasionally even to true love on stage. Yet it’s rare to find passion and even rarer to witness carnality, two qualities that the Prenzie Players present in abundance in their juicy new production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Rock Island Masonic Temple.