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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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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"Oh no, Mimics again?!!"

One week ago, our definitely-human Chest E. Cognito attended Voyeuristic Intention's screening of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" at the CWRU Film Society cosplaying everyone's favorite dinner guest Eddie! Chesty was even one of Frank's Choice costume contest winners!

Visiting this shadowcast was a blast as VI was instrumental in the foundation of The Confused Greenies 19 years ago.

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"Oh no, Mimics again?!!"

One week ago, our definitely-human Chest E. Cognito attended Voyeuristic Intention's screening of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" at the CWRU Film Society cosplaying everyone's favorite dinner guest Eddie! Chesty was even one of Frank's Choice costume contest winners!

Visiting this shadowcast was a blast as VI was instrumental in the foundation of The Confused Greenies 19 years ago.

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Did you know #Caturday is a great day to catch William Shakespeare's "A Comedy of Errors" at our alma mater Case Western Reserve University?!

We went yesterday but you can still catch this play tonight and matinee tomorrow!

Though this play shares a lot of elements with commedia dell'arte it's actually inspired by the same Roman comedies that influenced commedia. But it's all that good farcical fun we love!

Get your tickets here: Theater.Case.Edu/Tickets

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Do you have your tickets? We're going TONIGHT!

Our alma mater Case Western Reserve University is staging William Shakespeare's "A Comedy of Errors" this weekend! Though this play shares a lot of elements with commedia dell'arte it's actually inspired by the same Roman comedies that influenced commedia. But it's all that good farcical fun we love!

Get your tickets here: Theater.Case.Edu/Tickets

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Our alma mater Case Western Reserve University is staging William Shakespeare's "A Comedy of Errors" this and next weekend! Though this play shares a lot of elements with commedia dell'arte it's actually inspired by the same Roman comedies that influenced commedia. But it's all good farcical fun and our troupe will be going to laugh next week!

Get tickets here: Theater.Case.Edu/Tickets

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