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Choices, choices... What commedia dell'arte shall we bring to Pennsic 53 this July and August?
While some of our options are actual adaptations of historic plays from early commedia, "The Brother Who Was Believed Dead" is an original work but directly inspired by the early 17th Century scenarios written by Flaminio Scala about the 16th Century i Gelosi!
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It's the First of May so Happy 60th Birthday to the Society for Creative Anachronism!
It was classes in the SCA where we first learned about the 16th Century theatre commedia dell'arte, the core of our troupe (who celebrated our own 20th birthday a few days ago). Many of our greatest performances are in the Society before audiences familiar with our zany foolish art. And we'll be staging more at Pennsic War this summer, the largest event in the SCA! Follow us and check back for more info soon!
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Choices, choices... What commedia dell'arte shall we bring to Pennsic 53 this July and August?
As we work to resolve some scheduling complications, perhaps 2026 is the time to bring our show with the most economic cast size to Pennsic - "One Captain, Five Venetians"!
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This past Saturday (April 25) was the 20th birthday of The Confused Greenies of Players' Patchwork Theatre Company! So let's here some final words of (comedic) wisdom from Players of the Patchwork! Here's one more that sums up our experience...
"And finally... Have fun! Because this is theatre!" --Mistress Aibhilin inghean Daibhidh (mka Bethany Rowlings)
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Choices, choices... What commedia dell'arte shall we bring to Pennsic 53 this July and August?
This past weekend was the troupe's 20th anniversary where we looked at the past two decades. But now it's time to look forward - but what real may come, unlike the farce of our second "time travel" traditional commedia dell'arte "The Fabricated Future of Fabritio"! Is Pennsic 53 in the possible future to debut this show?
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On this day (April 25) in 2006, a random conversation between Elianna and Jess on the campus of Case Western Reserve University founded what would become The Confused Greenies of Players' Patchwork Theatre Company.
Now... 460 performances later of 260 different semi-improvisational scenarios from traditional Italian commedia dell'arte and Japanese kyōgen to parodies of science-fiction, anime, and steampunk, staged in nearly 50 cities across 7 states by 200 Players of the Patchwork... 20 years... and still running!
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This Saturday, April 25 we celebrate our troupe's big 20th birthday so we're doing a retrospective countdown!
Year 16 (2021 - 2022) was when we could stage in-person commedia dell'arte again though we now had two different sets of masks such as the premiere of "The Horrible and Terrifying Deeds and Words of Niphleseth, Queen of the Wild Island of Chitterlingonian Sausages" for Ohio State University Center on Medieval & Renaissance Studies inspired by the 16th Century satirical novels by François Rabelais!
Year 17 (2022 - 2023) saw the world fully reopen 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"!
Year 18 (2023 - 2024) we staged more innuendo jokes in a 60 minute performance block than possibly the prior 18 years combined with "The Beavers of Venice", a last minute "Plan B" commedia dell'arte play for our biggest show at Pennsic!
Year 19 (2024 - 2025) finally completed plans begun in 2019 for our first D20 Project Play in 2019 when we staged "A Mockery of Mimicry" multiple times as a commedia dell'arte parody celebrating the 50th anniversary of Dungeons & Dragons where audience rolls of a giant die determined the course of our farce!
Year 20 (2025 - 2026) we continued our look into the more fantasy side of commedia dell'arte with several performances in historical pastorale style on our way to going down, down, down into a goblin town where we'll end on the madness of laughter!
So... where will the next 20 years take us?!
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Choices, choices... What commedia dell'arte shall we bring to Pennsic 53 this July and August?
Today is Earth Day and we're reminded of the second scenario completed from our first #Inktober challenge in Fall 2024. "Arlecchino's Arborous Adventure" takes elements from a commedia pastorale but grounds them in tricks and fake illusions of a traditional "street" commedia situational romantic comedy farce!
(Also by amusing coincidence, both commedia plays we performed this month also have the foolish harlequin as part of the title!)
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When we heard tabletop creators had declared Monster Week 2026 (April 20 - 24) to be about the Fae, we had to celebrate with a clip from our fairy funny farce "The Hazards of Hunting Red-Caps" - though our commedia dell'arte referenced actual historical scholarship about the fae during the Society for Creative Anachronism's time period which can quite differ from D&D as Brighella here points out!
An expanded version of "Red-Caps" has been a consideration for our Pennsic Performing Arts Tent show. Someday, some fae!
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