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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!)

#CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #Comedy #Mask #Pennsic #PennsicWar #SCA #SocietyForCreativeAnachronism #MySCA

Players' Patchwork Theatre Co 1d ago

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!

#MonsterWeek #Fae #Fairy #Fey

#CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #Pennsic #PennsicWar #SCA #SocietyForCreativeAnachronism #MySCA

Players' Patchwork Theatre Co 1d ago

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

(Also by amusing coincidence, both commedia plays we performed this month also have the foolish harlequin as part of the title!)

#CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #Pennsic #PennsicWar #SCA #SocietyForCreativeAnachronism #MySCA

J4YC33 2d ago

Hallo #Berlin!

Haben Sie Interesse an lebendiger Geschichte? Wollen Sie mit Holzschwert und Rüstung kämpfen? Wird es möglich sein, für ihn eine Lust auf handgemachte Kittel und Tunika zuhaben?

Kommen Sie damit und ein Mitglied von der Gesellschaft für Lebende Geschichte worden!

Bitte geben Sie mir Bescheid, wenn Sie Interesse haben! (Meine DMs sind offen!)
~

Hello #Berlin!
Do you have interest in Living History? Do you want to fight with Wood swords and armor? Is it possible you want to hand make some tunics?

Come join the Society for living history!

Just shoot me a message if you have interest! (My DMs are open!)

#GlG #SCA #Drachenwald #SocietyForCreativeAnachronism #LARP #Germany #Deutschland

Players' Patchwork Theatre Co 3d ago

Thanks to April Fools Day it's also National Humor Month! But today marks Humorous Day, to remind us to find the funny in every situation so we're encouraged to look on the bright side and embrace laughter as good medicine!

#CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #Pennsic #PennsicWar #SCA #SocietyForCreativeAnachronism #MySCA

Players' Patchwork Theatre Co 4d ago

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"!

#CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #ClevelandConCoction #Pennsic #PennsicWar #SCA #SocietyForCreativeAnachronism #Birthday #Anniversary #20Years

Players' Patchwork Theatre Co Apr 16

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!

#CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #Cleftlands #Midrealm #MiddleKingdom #SCA #SocietyForCreativeAnachronism #MySCA

Players' Patchwork Theatre Co Apr 15

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!

#CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #Pennsic #PennsicWar #SCA #SocietyForCreativeAnachronism #MySCA #Laundry

Players' Patchwork Theatre Co Apr 14

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!

#CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #SCA #SocietyForCreativeAnachronism #MySCA #Tax #TaxSeason #TaxDay

Players' Patchwork Theatre Co Apr 13

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)

#MondayMotivation

#CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #Pennsic #PennsicWar #SCA #SocietyForCreativeAnachronism #MySCA #Birthday