SPRING PLAY - "The Last Gladiator"

Rehearsals for the LP/HT Spring Play, The Last Gladiator, a comedy written by Martin Follose and directed by Julie Olson, are underway at the Lester Prairie School. Performance dates are April 15 and 16, 2016, at 7:30pm at the Lester Prairie School’s stage. Admission for the play is $5 for adults and $3 for students. There will also be a matinee for students on Friday, April 15.

The Last Gladiator is a fast paced comedy that will have the audience rolling on the floor with laughter. While the emperor is away at war with almost all of the other senators and men of the city, playful peasant thieves ransack the market place, the annoying senators’ wives invent silly promotions to raise war-time funds, and the princess searches in vain for a husband. If she can’t find a suitable match, her father has decreed she must marry the last gladiator standing in the upcoming games. That’s the last thing this headstrong, intelligent feminist princess wants! To make matters worse, top-ranking Senator Altilis is breathing down her neck to choose him as the one lucky senator to control the affairs at the home front. He deviously schemes to get her out of the empire’s affairs by moving the day of the gladiator games up, thus burdening the princess with planning her dreaded wedding. Meanwhile, peasant thieves, Gladis, Minimus, and Julie sneak into the royal palace disguised as handmaidens. They are promptly caught in a hilarious scene, almost becoming lion food until the princess gets an idea. If she trains Gladis to compete in the games, she can avoid marrying Brudis, the brainless brute favored to win. A hysterical scene follows when Minimus and Julia’s plan to the rig the games to save Gladis blows up in their faces. Find out who is the last gladiator standing in the side-splitting comedy.

This play is produced by special arrangement with Pioneer Drama Services, Inc., Englewood, Colorado.

Cast for “The Last Gladiator”

Gladius ... Andrew Jackson

Minimus ... Logan Groff

Lady ... Trisha Nyberg

Julia ... Jamie DeBruyckere

Princess ... Grace Jeurissen

Maid ... Maggie Piehl

Altilis ... Cameron Bolf

Messenger ... Harley Hentges

Impella ... Olivia Sanders

Verbalina ... Delaney Sebora

Sasilla ... Emily Williams

Laffina ... Paige Hausladen

Attendant ... Maggie Piehl

Brudis ... Rodrigo Medina

Fina ... Paige Hausladen

Emperor ... Erik Hentges

Mob/Spectator #1 ... Erik Hentges

Mob/Spectator #2 ... Landon Groff