Did you know our artistic director and founder has been a huge train fan all his life? (His actual first words ever were "choo-choo"!)

Yesterday, he caught the historic Big Boy No. 4014, the world's largest operating steam locomotive, as it passed through the campus of our troupe's alma mater, Case Western Reserve University, on its journey to the East Coast as part of the United States 250th birthday. The return trip brings it back through Ohio next month, passing through Cleveland again on Monday, July 13 with a bigger event in Fostoria, OH the next day.

But we're hoping to catch Big Boy's stop in Struthers, OH on July 12 on the way to a storage locker run to prep for our upcoming shows at Pennsic later that month!

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Tthe annual massive book sale hosted by our alma mater Case Western Reserve University continues trhough this Tuesday, June 2! Swing by 3631 Perkins Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44114 to browse thousands of used books and other material with deals getting better each day!

See more: https://www.acesite.org/book-sale-event

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For some, this may be the most wonderous weekend of the year as the annual massive book sale hosted by our alma mater Case Western Reserve University returns to it's near Downtown location: 3631 Perkins Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44114! Saturday, May 30 through Tuesday, June 2 you can browse thousands of used books and other material with deals getting better each day!

See more: https://www.acesite.org/book-sale-event

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May 25 is also Towel Day, celebrating the amazing humorous sci-fi works by Douglas Adams! From our own "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" parodies to anime fanservice farces and steamy steampunk shenanigans, towels have been a common, uh, COSTUME in our Patchwork Productions!

"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." --Douglas Adams

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#Improv #Improvisation #Theater #Parody #HitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy #TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy #Anime #CWRU #AnimeCon

Our alma mater Case Western Reserve University continues it's run of the musical "Pippin" this week at the Maltz Performing Arts Center by the Department of Theater! See more here: https://case.edu/maltzcenter/calendar-events/cwru-department-theater/pippin

Years ago, we loaned props to the the campus musical theatre student org Footlighters for their staging of "Pippin".

#Theater #Pippin #Musical #CWRU #CaseWesternReserve #CaseWesternReserveUnitiversity

On Saturday, April 25 we celebrate our troupe's big 20th birthday so we're doing a retrospective countdown!

Year 6 (2011 - 2012) was when we officially were on the schedule for Pennsic for the first time with an encore of "The Horoscope"!

Year 7 (2012 - 2013) saw some of our biggest performances ever as we celebrated the 50th anniversary of "Doctor Who" with several parodies including our Defenders of Neo-Nippon 3 Team Henshin-H anime crossover "Dottore Who & the Curse of the Fatal Fanservice"!

Year 8 (2013 - 2014) when we played on the Pennsic Amphitheatre stage for the first time with a double feature of commedia dell'arte adaptations of two farces by the Roman poet Plautus: "Miles Gloriosus" and "Aulularia: the Pot of Gold"!

Year 9 (2014 - 2015) when we prepared for trouble and made it double with our Defenders of Neo-Nippon 3 Team Henshin-H anime parody "QB's Used Wish Emporium" at at our alma mater Case Western Reserve University's Anime Marathon!

Year 10 (2015 - 2016) we went to a Patchwork Multiverse that's right over there with a bawdy commedia dell'arte parody of Star Wars and one of our punniest titles in "Looking for Love in Alderaan Places" as our first full length performance at Cleveland ConCoction!

Follow us and check back soon for the next set of years!

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On Saturday, April 25 we celebrate our troupe's big 20th birthday so we're doing a retrospective countdown!

Year 1 (2006 - 2007) saw "The Days After the Days of the Valentine's" as our first performance under the banner of The Confused Greenies, a short modernized commedia dell'arte farce for the combined Carnevale & Mardi Gras celebration at our alma mater of Case Western Reserve University!

Year 2 (2007 - 2008) we adapted "The Horoscope" at CWRU as our first traditional commedia dell'arte full three-act play which we'd later encore several times as one of our faves!

Year 3 (2008 - 2009) we expanded from our traditional commedia dell'arte roots to study a different culture's historic improvised theatre in our first "Mad Words: the Art of Kyōgen" shows at CWRU's Anime Marathon!

Year 4 (2009 - 2010) the troupe got really active including modernized commedia dell'rte of both "Doctor Who" and our first musical parody of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show"!

Year 5 (2010 - 2011) we kept the momentum going with an even bigger season, the highlight the premiere of "Dottore Who & the Zealous Ones" where our bumbling parody time traveler meets the most famous commedia dell'arte troupe in history during a foolish alien invasion of the Italian Renaissance! Still one of our finest performances to date that also introduced our signature short play "It All Makes Sense Now!"

Follow us and check back soon for the next set of years!

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Holiday or no holiday, the Players of the Patchwork will take any excuse to wear green and we encourage you to do so tomorrow on Tuesday! 🤣

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In two months we celebrate our 20th birthday - but earlier this week (the same day Carnevale ended and the new lunarsolar year began) marked the 19th anniversary of our very first performance under the banner of The Confused Greenies and i Verdi Confusi! Appropriate for the occasion, that was also staged to entertain Carnevale at our alma mater Case Western Reserve University! And over 450 performances since then!

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It's a big sportsball weekend with not only the Superbowl tomorrow but also the Winter Olympics in northern Italy! Perhaps later this year, maybe we'll encore our commedia dell'arte about a Renaissance Italy predecessor to football, "A Comedic Farce of a Fraudulent Cow in Calcio Fiorentino"!

So we say, "Go favorite sportsball team! Move that ball to wherever better than the other sportsball team!"

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