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@PlayersPatchwork@universeodon.com · Apr 19, 2026
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
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@PlayersPatchwork@universeodon.com · Apr 18, 2026
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"! Follow us and check back soon for the final set of years! #CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #ClevelandConCoction #Pennsic #PennsicWar #SCA #SocietyForCreativeAnachronism #Birthday #Anniversary #20Years
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@PlayersPatchwork@universeodon.com · Apr 05, 2026
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
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@PlayersPatchwork@universeodon.com · Mar 28, 2026
If you are protesting today (or any day), make sure you know your rights. Be as safe as you can be but be effective. And if you cannot protest in-person, there are many other ways to support causes you care about. And remember: freedom of expression and freedom of speech are two of our most important rights to exercise. But mostly, also make sure to continue to laugh, smile, and have fun. Even in dark times, find the joy. It's not just about living but about making life worthwhile! See more: https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/protesters-rights #CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #Pennsic #PennsicWar #SCA #SocietyForCreativeAnachronism #MySCA #Protest #FreedomOfExpression #FreedomOfSpeech
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@PlayersPatchwork@universeodon.com · Mar 16, 2026
March 16 is Act Happy Day! Sometimes we can bring joy to ourselves and others by enacting the motions and activities that bloom happiness. Our often said motto in the troupe is to make the world better one laugh, one smile at a time! "Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." --Marcel Proust #MondayMotivation #CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #Pennsic #PennsicWar #SCA #SocietyForCreativeAnachronism #MySCA
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@PlayersPatchwork@universeodon.com · Mar 01, 2026
It's the first of March! Is it in like a [commedia dell'arte] lion? #CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #Pennsic #PennsicWar #SCA #SocietyForCreativeAnachronism #MySCA #Lion
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@PlayersPatchwork@universeodon.com · Feb 23, 2026
One of the benefits of commedia dell'arte is that we can easily encore the same scenario and perform the same characters again and again, improving our improv which each attempt. No matter what happens during a performance there is no failure if the audience laughs and we learn something to make better next time! "Success is not the absence of failure; it's the persistence through failure." --Aisha Tyler #MondayMotivation #CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #Pennsic #PennsicWar #SCA #SocietyForCreativeAnachronism #MySCA
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@PlayersPatchwork@universeodon.com · Feb 23, 2026
To celebrate Global Commedia Day later this Wednesday, February 25, here are three more facts about commedia dell'arte! ➤The theatrical term "slapstick" described comedic stage combat originated from commedia, specifically from the batte carried by or used upon the harlequin fool ➤Though commedia was improvised to a brief outline scenario, most plays had scripted and memorized moments of short scenes, dialogue, or physical comedic bits called lazzi (singular lazzo) that often did not enhance the plot but could be inserted into many plays ➤The most famous actor of commedia in the Italian Renaissance was Isabella Andrieni of i Gelosi who had fan clubs and wrote plays and poetry inspiring many troupes today to use the name for a more clever and self-determined amorosa in contrast to the typically ditzy innamorati #CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #Pennsic #PennsicWar #SCA #SocietyForCreativeAnachronism #Midrealm #OneWordDay
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@PlayersPatchwork@universeodon.com · Feb 21, 2026
In two months we celebrate our 20th birthday - but earlier this week (the same day Carnevale ended and the new lunarsolar year began) marked the 19th anniversary of our very first performance under the banner of The Confused Greenies and i Verdi Confusi! Appropriate for the occasion, that was also staged to entertain Carnevale at our alma mater Case Western Reserve University! And over 450 performances since then! #CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #Pennsic #PennsicWar #SCA #SocietyForCreativeAnachronism #ClevelandConCoction #CleCon #SciFi #Anime #Prody #DoctorWho #DnD #Fantasy #CWRU #CaseWesternReserveUniversity
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@PlayersPatchwork@universeodon.com · Feb 16, 2026
Change the world one laugh, one smile, at a time and everything is possible. "Keep exploring. Keep dreaming. Keep asking why. Don’t settle for what you already know. Never stop believing in the power of your ideas, your imagination, your hard work to change the world." --Barack Obama #MondayMotivation #CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #Pennsic #PennsicWar #SCA #SocietyForCreativeAnachronism #MySCA #PresidentsDay #DnD #DungeonsAndDragons #D20 #Dice #Parody
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@PlayersPatchwork@universeodon.com · Feb 11, 2026
To celebrate Global Commedia Day later this month on Wednesday, February 25, here are three facts about commedia dell'arte! ➤Commedia actors improvise from a brief outline of the plot called a scenario ➤Male servants are collectively called "zanni" and can be tricky and clever to clueless and foolish ➤Commedia dell'Arte could be seen as an example of "love wins" since contrary to the norms of society at the time the machinations of the patriarchal characters, the young lovers would have their romance realized by the end of ACT III As we in The Confused Greenies of Players' Patchwork Theatre Company celebrate our 20th anniversary of being a commedia troupe, of course we must mark Commedia dell'Arte Day 2026! #CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #Pennsic #PennsicWar #SCA #SocietyForCreativeAnachronism #OSU #OhioState
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@PlayersPatchwork@universeodon.com · Feb 02, 2026
To celebrate Global Commedia Day later this month on Wednesday, February 25, here are three facts about commedia dell'arte! ➤Commedia originated from the 16th Century Italian Renaissance ➤Unlike most masked theatre from around the world, commedia uses half face masks which allow the actors to emote with their mouth and jaw ➤Despite his sloppy look, Pedrolino was the most clever and tricky servant of earliest commedia As we in The Confused Greenies of Players' Patchwork Theatre Company celebrate our 20th anniversary of being a commedia troupe, of course we must mark Commedia dell'Arte Day 2026! #CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #Pennsic #PennsicWar #SCA #SocietyForCreativeAnachronism #CWRU #CaseWesternReserveUniversity #OSU #OhioState
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@PlayersPatchwork@universeodon.com · Jan 31, 2026
An example from one of our commedia dell'arte farces to describe how old we all felt at the start of January 2026 versus how old we all feel now at the end of January 2026.... seventy-eight weeks later.... #CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #Pennsic #PennsicWar #SCA #SocietyForCreativeAnachronism #MySCA #January
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@PlayersPatchwork@universeodon.com · Jan 30, 2026
"Congress shall make no law... prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." #CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #Pennsic #PennsicWar #SCA #SocietyForCreativeAnachronism #MySCA #Protest #KnowYourRights #FirstAmendment
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@PlayersPatchwork@universeodon.com · Jan 30, 2026
Don't be a grouch! January 29 is Curmudgeons Day 2026! Or should we say... Pantalone Day? For being a curmudgeon is so tied to this old miserly man il Magnifico stock commedia dell'arte character we even used the term in the title for the earliest commedia performance (21 years ago next week) that lead to the creation of The Confused Greenies! #CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #Pennsic #PennsicWar #SCA #SocietyForCreativeAnachronism #MySCA
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