Yesterday was World Laughter Day which is a great reminder of the health benefits of laughing, especially during troubling and stressful times! We like to say The Confused Greenies of Players' Patchwork Theatre Company aim to make the world better one laugh, one smile at a time.
"Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away." --Benjamin Franklin
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Yesterday was World Laughter Day which is a great reminder of the health benefits of laughing, especially during troubling and stressful times! We like to say The Confused Greenies of Players' Patchwork Theatre Company aim to make the world better one laugh, one smile at a time.
"Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away." --Benjamin Franklin
#CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #Pennsic #PennsicWar #SCA #MySCA
Choices, choices... What commedia dell'arte shall we bring to Pennsic 52 this August?
Last year we premiered our sports-themed commedia dell'arte "A Comedic Farce of a Fraudulent Cow in Calcio Fiorentino" with a likely plan to "play ball" again at Pennsic in 2025!
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Taking a break from our planned commedia dell'arte of the spring, the troupe last night tested a funly convoluted scenario titled "The Three Brothers" where each Arlecchino would be played by the same actor! Originally written as an emergency back-up show during the virtual performances of 2020, maybe this will grace the stage (or ethereal realm) soon?
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Celebrate International Dance Day with whatever moves you want - including what Arlecchino is doing here from our commedia dell'arte colleges in Il Titolo Provvisorio!
Dance and music show up in historic commedia from time to time; we plan to include some in our pastorale parody "The Rocky Shores of Arcadia" this summer at Pennsic!
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TODAY (April 25) we celebrate our troupe's 19th birthday so let's do a retrospective countdown!
Watch here: https://youtu.be/mStBdt0PAr4
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April 24 is Scream Day, a reminder of the cathartic benefits of sometimes just letting it all out. Especially in recent times!
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Just 1 more day until the troupe's 19th birthday so it's time to finish our retrospectively countdown with Year 19! Having started plans for our first D20 Project Play in 2019, we finally staged "A Mockery of Mimicry" multiple times last year 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!
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2 days until the troupe's 19th birthday so we're retrospectively counting down continuing with Year 18 when we staged more innuendo jokes in 60 minutes 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!
With Pennsic 2025 now less than three months away we need to ramp our plans for this year!
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6 days until the troupe's 19th birthday so we're retrospectively counting down continuing with Year 14 which 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!
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Improvisation (in commedia dell'arte and other arts) needs awareness of your surroundings on stage. So... Happy National Velociraptor Awareness Day from The Confused Greenies of Players' Patchwork Theatre Company!
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It's April 15 and one of the certainties in life is taxes! But another is laundry. Always more laundry.... especially coming home after a big event performing!
Happy National Laundry Day, everyone! Celebrate with some good "clean" fun - like in our 2017 commedia dell'arte farce "The Tutelage of Isabella" at Pennsic, an event that generates a mountain's worth of laundry - there's even a song about it!
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We love adding comedic drama to our lives - though more on stage and less about tomorrow's Tax Day!
"A perfect method of adding drama to life is to wait until the deadline looms large." --Alyce Cornyn-Selby
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12 days until the troupe's 19th birthday so we're retrospectively counting down continuing with Year 8 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"!
Roman comedies had a lot of influence on 16th Century theatre, not just our commedia from Italy but also William Shakespeare in England, notably in "A Comedy of Errors" which is currently being staged by our alma mater Case Western Reserve University (and we're going next Friday to see)!
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14 days until the troupe's 19th birthday so we're retrospectively counting down continuing with Year 6 when we encored "The Horoscope" as our first full three-act commedia dell'arte officially on the schedule for Pennsic!
We're currently planning what plays to bring to Pennsic 2025!
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Dottore Gratiano, Capitano Testosteroné, and Arlecchino should remember that April 7 is International Beaver Day because wild beavers might pose a risk to their wood (that supports the commedia dell'arte setting of the city of Venice)!
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April 3 is also Independent Artist Day to remind us to appreciate and find ways to support all the artists out there in any medium that might our world more beautiful, more amazing, and more full of wonder! And with uncertain times, we need art even more and they need our support.
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It's the first of April so our troupe of fools encourages you to have foolish fun and folly today - and in fact everyday! We're not talking cruel pranks but the joys being mirthful and silly can bring to life!
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We learned commedia dell'arte in a medieval re-creation organization so our Players of the Patchwork might just be medievalists! Happy Hug a Medievalist Day! (hugging with consent of course)
https://nationaltoday.com/hug-a-medievalist-day/
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With this back & forth weather, March keeps coming back in like a lion!
"Within each of us there is the heart of a lion, the courage to simply be who & what we are regardless of others opinions or our own fears." --Oriah Dreamer
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