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

Year 11 (2016 - 2017) was our first time crafting and bringing a full three-act production to the Popular Cultural & the Deep Past historic conference at the Ohio State University Center on Medieval & Renaissance Studies with our thematic commedia dell'arte parody of magic and fantasy!

Year 12 (2017 - 2018) we joined famous commedia dell'arte troupe i Sebastiani to finally stage "The Heterodyne Boys & the Race to the West Pole" to adapt the play briefly seen in the pages of the "Girl Genius" gaslamp fantasy graphic novel series and with the creators themselves in the audience as Comic Guests of Honor at Marcon!

Year 13 (2018 - 2019) we went back to school - specifically to Miskatonic University that was experiencing "Tentacle Difficulties" in our first Lovecraftian Cthulhu Mythos inspired parody farce for Cleveland ConCoction's eldritch horror themed convention!

Year 14 (2019 - 2020) featured a touring run of one of our favorite commedia dell'arte plays, a fairy funny farce called "The Hazards of Hunting Red-Caps" that we performed three times for Ohio State University, three times for Pennsic, once for Midrealm 50 Year, and more!

Year 15 (2020 - 2021) fell entirely into the pandemic social distancing era but that didn't stop us from staging virtual shows over Zoom including the premiere of Mistress Aibhilin inghean Daibhidh's three-act commedia dell'arte "The Calendimaggio Affair"!

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While we may not normally celebrate a holiday called "National Cheese Ball Day", last weekend for a medieval and Renaissance conference on stargazing at Ohio State University, Arlecchino (and other commedia dell'arte) went to the Moon in hopes it tasted like a big round ball of cheese! Spoiler alert: it did not!

(Pardon the poor footage; we had some technical difficulties with our camera during the performance.)

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The kitties of the Patchwork Palace wish you a most fun final #Caturday before the 20th anniversary of The Confused Greenies in just one week!

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The theme for the Barony of the Cleftlands {Not So} Regular {Not January} Event earlier this month was the "The Lord of Misrule Reigns"! Our capocomico, Niccolò Bartolazzi, was asked to teach so brought his classes on jesters & fools and commedia dell'arte; we should aim to teach more this year!

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It's April 15 and one of the certainties in life is taxes! But another is laundry. Always more laundry.... When you run a commedia dell'arte troupe with many performances throughout the year, it feels like there are more days than just one that we could call National Laundry Day! Celebrate with some good "clean" fun!

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This past weekend we had a great time launching our premier of a Renaissance style science-fiction commedia dell'arte, "Arlecchino, Emperor on the Moon", for the Ohio State University Center on Medieval and Renaissance Studies!

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Tax Day is TOMORROW (Wednesday, April 15)! Make sure you have a plan - and preferably better than the one Brighella and the Doge came up with in our commedia dell'arte "A Dogerous Game" at Masque de la Fou in the Society for Creative Anachronism, this week 9 years ago!

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Later this month (April 25) is the 20th birthday of The Confused Greenies of Players' Patchwork Theatre Company so let's here some words of (comedic) wisdom from Players of the Patchwork! Here's one to describe how managing the troupe often goes...

"I feed on resolving chaos. You all are a bountiful smorgasbord!" --Niccolò Bartolazzi (mka Jess Rudolph)

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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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Choices, choices... What commedia dell'arte shall we bring to Pennsic 53 this July and August?

Days ago the astronauts on the Artemis II mission flew into an eclipse of the Sun by the Moon. And this week two years ago was the Great North American Eclipse which inspired us to write the scenario "The Totality of Confusion"! Perhaps Pennsic 2026 is when this farce will see the light (or maybe the dark?) of day!

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