June 4 is National Hug Your Cat Day on Earth - so hug all our adorable kitties! 😻

But on our anime parody world of Neo-Nippon 3 it's also Hug Your Cat(Girl) (With Enthusiastic Consent!) Day? 😹

#CatGirl #Anime #Parody #Theater #Improv #Improvisation #Marcon #MarconOH #SciFiCon

June 3, early in Pride Month, is Love Conquers All Day!

For centuries commedia dell'arte holds true that LOVE WINS regardless what supposed "social norms" and "traditions" try to mandate. And our art may be centuries old but our audiences are modern. Art should reflect life and we want our art to be inclusive. Our plots, our characters, our players, and our writers celebrate diversity and representation.

Love is love!

#LoveWins #Pride2025 #LoveIsLove

#CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #OhioState #OSU #ClevelandConCoction #CleCon #Marcon #MarconOH #Pennsic #PennsicWar #SocietyForCreativeAnachronism #SCA #MySCA

This past weekend some of the "Doctor Who" fandom celebrated TikTok Galliday with fan made content! We love staging our parody plays including mixing science-fiction with historic commedia dell'arte improv theatre from the Italian Renaissance!

"The fact that it's science fiction gives you the license to do anything you want to do." --Lindsay Wagner

#MondayMotivation

#CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #Marcon #MarconOH #SciFiCon #Parody #DoctorWho #Dalek #TARDIS

3 days until the troupe's 19th birthday so we're retrospectively counting down continuing with Year 17 when the world more reopened and when faced what was expected to be the final Marcon (our premiere science-fiction convention) we decided to go out with a bang and stage our second adaptation of a play briefly scene in the pages of the "Girl Genius" gaslamp fantasy graphic novel series, the infamous and incredibly ribald "Heterodyne Boys & the Socket Wench of Prague"!

(By chance our countdown for this bawdy and scandalous show landed on National Pin-Up Day today!)

#CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #GirlGenius #Parody #GaslampFantasy #Comics #Marcon #MarconOH

Happy Discount Chocolate & Candy Day! 🤣

"Life is like Candyland, there are many paths to take, sometimes you run into Lord Licorice but the end will always be Candy Castle." --Jack Barakat

#MondayMotivation

#DoctorWho #Dalek #TARDIS #Parody #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #Marcon #MarconOH #ScienceFiction #SciFi #Easter #CandyLand #Candy #Chocolate

8 days until the troupe's 19th birthday so we're retrospectively counting down continuing with Year 12 we were joined by famous commedia dell'arte troupe i Sebastiani out of Boston to finally stage "The Heterodyne Boys & the Race to the West Pole", a long-time project to adapt the play briefly scene 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!

#CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #GirlGenius #Parody #GaslampFantasy #Comics #Marcon #MarconOH

13 days until the troupe's 19th birthday so we're retrospectively counting down continuing with Year 7 which 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"!

#Improv #Improvisation #Theater #Marcon #MarconOH #SciFiCon #Parody #DoctorWho #TARDIS #SailorMoon #Anime #Mecha #GiantRobot #Robot #MagicalGirl

15 days until the troupe's 19th birthday so we're retrospectively counting down continuing with Year 5 when 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!"!

#CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #Marcon #MarconOH #SciFiCon #Parody #DoctorWho

Holiday or no holiday, the Players of the Patchwork will take any excuse to wear green! 🤣

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#Green #WearGreen #CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Theater #SocietyForCreativeAnachronism #SCA #Dalek #DoctorWho #Parody #RockyHorror #RHPS #CWRU #Marcon #MarconOH #Cleftlands #Midrealm

"You may be pretty or plain, heavy or thin, gay or straight, poor or rich. But remember this: In an election, every voice is equally powerful -- don't underestimate your vote. Voting is the great equalizer." --Maya Angelou

#MondayMotivation #Vote #Election

#improv #improvisation #theater #ScienceFiction #GasLampFantasy #Marcon #MarconOH