After six successful performances, we say goodbye to Goneril, Regan, and Cordelia. They move on to the afterlife while The Pennyless Players move out of Kristallwerk (for now) to enjoy their well-earned Easter break. For five evenings and one afternoon in a row, our visitors have had the opportunity to follow the fate of threeContinue reading “The Pelicans have departed”
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Coming up: We Pelican Daughters
Auditions are over, cast and crew have been assembled, and we have started preparations for our next feature-length production: We Pelican Daughters, an original play written by our very own Caroline Kimbell. This continuation of Shakespeare’s classic King Lear shifts the focus to the title character’s (in)famous daughters to reconsider the original play’s events throughContinue reading “Coming up: We Pelican Daughters”
Casting Call: We Pelican Daughters
What better to start the new year with than a brand new play? We are doing it on stage again, but of course we don’t want to do it all by ourselves. We want YOU to come and join us for our next production: We Pelican Daughters, an original play by our very own CarolineContinue reading “Casting Call: We Pelican Daughters”
What We Do on Stage
The time has come: the grand finale of our 15-Year Annivesrary is at hand. This Saturday, November 26th, and Tuesday, November 29th we’ll be performing What We Do on Stage, an evening of two one-act meta plays. This is a guest performance at the intimate Haus 3 of Schauspielhaus Graz. We’ll be performing two veryContinue reading “What We Do on Stage”
Casting Call for “Lenny and Benny”
CASTINGS for FOUR SHOWS will be held at the end of this week, and next week at Das Andere Theater.
CASTING THREE MORE SHOWS SEPT 9 – 16!
WE ARE NOW SEEKING:
Actors! Stage Crew! Designers!
Tech People! Party Planners!
… and much more!
WE WANT YOU ALL TO BE INVOLVED!
Opening Night: A Celebration in Seven Shows
The October program of our 15-Year Annivesary Festival is off to a rollicking start. After a magnificent performance by our Improv group, we moved into Kristalwerk to open our One-Act Play celebration with our “Light Nights”. Accompanied by riotous laughter, the evening opened with a reprise of September’s “The Dinner Guest,” by Herman and CeciliaContinue reading “Opening Night: A Celebration in Seven Shows”
Festival Improv at Bar8020
The Pennyless Players Improv group had a blast performing at Bar 8020 on Saturday Oct 22nd! We found out how Lucifer himself got overpowered by two little girls, or about Thermomix Beep-Boop’s scheme to overthrow humankind. The audience was on their toes! Then we recycled parts of old Pennyless Players performance scripts and created crazyContinue reading “Festival Improv at Bar8020”
Festival Improv
The Pennyless Players Improv Group warmly invites you to an evening of improv madness to celebrate our theatre group’s 15th anniversary, where we’ve come from, and that (as this is improv) we have no idea where we’re going!Therefore our motto: “On the slide to anywhere!” Dare to join the ride? Admission is free, voluntary donationsContinue reading “Festival Improv”
A Celebration in Seven Shows
Three light and three dark one-act plays To celebrate our anniversary, we offer you not one play, but a wide variety of one-act shows: From established classics written in 1847, to a reprise of the Pennyless Players’ very first play from back in 2007 – we’re displaying the full range of what we can do.Continue reading “A Celebration in Seven Shows”
Festival Opening Event!
Our 15-Year Anniversary opened with three fabulous one-act plays at the Literaturhaus Graz! (Did you miss the performances? Don’t worry – the comedies will be reprised in October – see the full festival schedule). Our festival Opening Event began with “The Dinner-Guest,” by Herman and Cecilia Servatius, a reprise of the first play the PennylessContinue reading “Festival Opening Event!”
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