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".
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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!
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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!"
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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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To celebrate Global Commedia Day later this month on Wednesday, February 25, here are three facts about commedia dell'arte!
➤Commedia originated from the 16th Century Italian Renaissance
➤Unlike most masked theatre from around the world, commedia uses half face masks which allow the actors to emote with their mouth and jaw
➤Despite his sloppy look, Pedrolino was the most clever and tricky servant of earliest commedia
As we in The Confused Greenies of Players' Patchwork Theatre Company celebrate our 20th anniversary of being a commedia troupe, of course we must mark Commedia dell'Arte Day 2026!
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As one of Earth's resident sci-fi aliens, the Phlop'Globlen has been preparing for the CWRU Film Society's 51st Annual Science-Fiction Marathon this weekend!
Get tickets now for good, bad, and weird science-fiction movies on the big screen: http://films.case.edu/
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It's just taking 2026 one step at a time...
Happy National Take the Stairs Day if you can (and okay if you can't)! We're taking steps toward our 20th anniversary and reminded of one of our earliest shows when we learned the Secrets of Cartoon Physics at Case Western Reserve University that in a farcical comedy any object (or foolish harlequin) falling from an extreme height will be slower than someone frantically running down the stairs of every story (often with repeated clips to save budget). So remember that if you're ever in a 'toon 'verse!
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This week, 14 years ago, we staged our first anime parody play... which included K-Pop dancers... hunting demons.... Huh...
For the Fall 2011 Case Con Anime Marathon at Case Western Reserve University we not only wrote a parody mashing together the anime being watched that semester (including "Steins;Gate" and "Higurashi") but we also invited the local Niji Dancers to be an integral part of the plot where their K-Pop dance moves were combined with time-travel to track down and defeat a kawaii cyber-demon from Venus! . . . . It... was a thing...
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