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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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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Choices, choices... What commedia dell'arte shall we bring to Pennsic 53 this July and August?
Yesterday the astronauts on the Artemis II mission flew into an eclipse of the Sun by the Moon. And almost two years ago was the Great American Eclipse which inspired us to write the scenario "The Totality of Confusion"! Perhaps Pennsic 2026 is when this farce will see (or maybe not see) the light of day!
Follow us and check back often for more updates on potential plays and our eventual selection!
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As the crew of the Artemis II journeys to the Moon, so can you - 16th Century style with a zany cast of commedia dell'arte characters as envisioned by medieval and Renaissance writers! "Arlecchino, Emperor on the Moon" blasts off next Saturday, April 11 at the Ohio State University's Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies conference on "Star Gazing: Astrology and Astronomy in the Medieval and Renaissance Imagination"!
See more about the event: https://cmrs.osu.edu/events/star-gazing-astrology-and-astronomy-medieval-and-renaissance-imagination
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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!
"Laugh while you learn. And learn while you laugh." --Alienor de Saint Remi (mka Megan M. Matthews)
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As the crew of the Artemis II journeys to the Moon, so can you - 16th Century style with a zany cast of commedia dell'arte characters as envisioned by medieval and Renaissance writers! "Arlecchino, Emperor on the Moon" blasts off next Saturday, April 11 at the Ohio State University's Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies conference on "Star Gazing: Astrology and Astronomy in the Medieval and Renaissance Imagination"!
See more about the event: https://cmrs.osu.edu/events/star-gazing-astrology-and-astronomy-medieval-and-renaissance-imagination
#CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #Pennsic #PennsicWar #SCA #SocietyForCreativeAnachronism #MySCA #OSU #OhioState #OhioStateUniversity #Moon #ScienceFiction #SciFi #Renaissance #History #Conference
After the amazing Artemis II launch yesterday, we have our own moonshot coming up!
Journey to the Moon with a zany cast of commedia dell'arte characters as envisioned by medieval and Renaissance writers! "Arlecchino, Emperor on the Moon" blasts off on Saturday, April 11 at the Ohio State University's Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies conference on "Star Gazing: Astrology and Astronomy in the Medieval and Renaissance Imagination"!
See more about the event: https://cmrs.osu.edu/events/star-gazing-astrology-and-astronomy-medieval-and-renaissance-imagination
#CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #Pennsic #PennsicWar #SCA #SocietyForCreativeAnachronism #MySCA #OSU #OhioState #OhioStateUniversity #Moon #ScienceFiction #SciFi #Renaissance #History #Conference
Choices, choices... What commedia dell'arte shall we bring to Pennsic 53 this July and August?
Yesterday was our beloved April Fools Day! A few years ago we foolishly accidentally wrote a farce as a demonstration of commedia dell'arte that turned out to be a quite good play of its own! Perhaps, especially as we're showcasing commedia to more audiences lately, Pennsic 2026 is time to let "An Accidental Farce" stand the stage on its own?
Follow us and check back often for more updates on potential plays and our eventual selection!
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