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#MondayMotivation: September 14, 2026

Today is National Live Creative Day! Though like many of these silly holidays you could say we live creative every day, especially when preparing or staging many of our fantastical commedia dell'arte productions!

"Don't wait for permission to do something creative." --Ava DuVernay

#CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #Mask #Comedy #Italian #ItalianCulture #ClevelandCulturalGardens #OneWorldDay #OWD

Last month at Pennsic 53 during our biggest show of the year, the local witch was brewing some special elixirs to aid in whatever ails you, be you old miser Pantalone wishing to survive his wedding night with infamous black widow Vittoria, the timid Oratio who needs more confidence to marry his beloved Isabella who is currently disguised as a traveling swordsman, or the foolish Arlecchino who will eat anything!

Check back soon to find what strange and beastly reactions occurred in the full video of i Verdi Confusi's first performance from our #Inktober writing challenge, "Pasquella's Powerful Potions"!

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

Last month at Pennsic 53 during our biggest show of the year, the local witch was brewing some special elixirs to aid in whatever ails you, be you old miser Pantalone wishing to survive his wedding night with infamous black widow Vittoria, the timid Oratio who needs more confidence to marry his beloved Isabella who is currently disguised as a traveling swordsman, or the foolish Arlecchino who will eat anything!

Check back soon to find what strange and beastly reactions occurred in the full video of i Verdi Confusi's first performance from our #Inktober writing challenge, "Pasquella's Powerful Potions"!

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

Last month at Pennsic 53 during our biggest show of the year, the local witch was brewing some special elixirs to aid in whatever ails you, be you old miser Pantalone wishing to survive his wedding night with infamous black widow Vittoria, the timid Oratio who needs more confidence to marry his beloved Isabella who is currently disguised as a traveling swordsman, or the foolish Arlecchino who will eat anything!

Check back soon to find what strange and beastly reactions occurred in the full video of i Verdi Confusi's first performance from our #Inktober writing challenge, "Pasquella's Powerful Potions"!

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

Last month at Pennsic 53 during our biggest show of the year, the local witch was brewing some special elixirs to aid in whatever ails you, be you old miser Pantalone wishing to survive his wedding night with infamous black widow Vittoria, the timid Oratio who needs more confidence to marry his beloved Isabella who is currently disguised as a traveling swordsman, or the foolish Arlecchino who will eat anything!

Check back soon to find what strange and beastly reactions occurred in the full video of i Verdi Confusi's first performance from our #Inktober writing challenge, "Pasquella's Powerful Potions"!

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

Last month at Pennsic 53 during our biggest show of the year, the local witch was brewing some special elixirs to aid in whatever ails you, be you old miser Pantalone wishing to survive his wedding night with infamous black widow Vittoria, the timid Oratio who needs more confidence to marry his beloved Isabella who is currently disguised as a traveling swordsman, or the foolish Arlecchino who will eat anything!

Check back soon to find what strange and beastly reactions occurred in the full video of i Verdi Confusi's first performance from our #Inktober writing challenge, "Pasquella's Powerful Potions"!

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

Earlier this year we celebrated our 20th birthday! However, it was not until late August 2006 that we adopted our name The Confused Greenies and (with help from Prof. Denise Caterinacci) our intentionally badly translated into Italian name i Verdi Confusi!

Since we originally started on the campus of Case Western Reserve University, we named ourselves after the notoriously confused campus shuttle buses. Of course, this moniker wouldn't mean much away from CWRU which is why we go by the Italian (replicating historic troupes) when performing commedia dell'arte for medieval and Renaissance events. Later we would also add Players' Patchwork Theatre Company to help pull both names together and better project what we do!

So happy two decades of green confusion!

#CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #Comedy #Mask #Pennsic #PennsicWar #SCA #SocietyForCreativeAnachronism #MySCA #CaseWesternReserveUniversity #CWRU #Oddmall #Marcon #OSU #OhioStateUniversity #OhioState #Name #Anniversary #20thAnniversary

Don't leave it up to random chance! The Ohio Primary is this Tuesday, May 5! Use your voice and use your vote!

See some voting resources: https://www.vote.org/

#Vote #Election

#CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #Marcon #DnD #Parody

March 23 is Talk Like Shakespeare Day! The famous playwright was very influenced by commedia dell'arte including the fanciful commedia pastorale. Here is a line from the witches in the "Scottish Play" (ACT IV Scene 1) that... well if you love performing and merriment could be seen as motivational!

"Come, sisters, cheer we up his sprites,
And show the best of our delights:
I'll charm the air to give a sound,
While you perform your antic round." --William Shakespeare

#MondayMotivation: March 23, 2026 Talk Like Shakespeare Day

#CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #Pennsic #PennsicWar #SCA #SocietyForCreativeAnachronism #MySCA #Shakespeare #WilliamShakespeare #ShakespeareQuotes #WilliamShakespeareQuotes

Happy New Year from The Confused Greenies of Players' Patchwork Theatre Company! Our resolution for 2026 is (as always) to continue to make the world better one laugh, one smile, at a time!

Hopefully we can bring those laughs and smiles to you this year at:
➤Zipcon in February
➤Cleveland ConCoction in March
➤Pop Culture & the Deep Past in April
➤Confluence in July
➤Pennsic in August
➤One World Day in August

And maybe even more!

#CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #NewYear #Resolution #NewYearResolution

Happy New Year from The Confused Greenies of Players' Patchwork Theatre Company! Our resolution for 2026 is (as always) to continue to make the world better one laugh, one smile, at a time!

Hopefully we can bring those laughs and smiles to you this year at:
➤Zipcon in February
➤Cleveland ConCoction in March
➤Pop Culture & the Deep Past in April
➤Confluence in July
➤Pennsic in August
➤One World Day in August

And maybe even more!

#CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #NewYear #Resolution #NewYearResolution

Happy New Year from The Confused Greenies of Players' Patchwork Theatre Company! Our resolution for 2026 is (as always) to continue to make the world better one laugh, one smile, at a time!

Hopefully we can bring those laughs and smiles to you this year at:
➤Zipcon in February
➤Cleveland ConCoction in March
➤Pop Culture & the Deep Past in April
➤Confluence in July
➤Pennsic in August
➤One World Day in August

And maybe even more!

#CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #NewYear #Resolution #NewYearResolution

Happy New Year from The Confused Greenies of Players' Patchwork Theatre Company! Our resolution for 2026 is (as always) to continue to make the world better one laugh, one smile, at a time!

Hopefully we can bring those laughs and smiles to you this year at:
➤Zipcon in February
➤Cleveland ConCoction in March
➤Pop Culture & the Deep Past in April
➤Confluence in July
➤Pennsic in August
➤One World Day in August

And maybe even more!

#CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #NewYear #Resolution #NewYearResolution

Happy New Year from The Confused Greenies of Players' Patchwork Theatre Company! Our resolution for 2026 is (as always) to continue to make the world better one laugh, one smile, at a time!

Hopefully we can bring those laughs and smiles to you this year at:
➤Zipcon in February
➤Cleveland ConCoction in March
➤Pop Culture & the Deep Past in April
➤Confluence in July
➤Pennsic in August
➤One World Day in August

And maybe even more!

#CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #NewYear #Resolution #NewYearResolution

June 3, early in Pride Month, is Love Conquers All Day!

For centuries commedia dell'arte holds true that LOVE WINS regardless what supposed "social norms" and "traditions" try to mandate. And our art may be centuries old but our audiences are modern. Art should reflect life and we want our art to be inclusive. Our plots, our characters, our players, and our writers celebrate diversity and representation.

Love is love!

#LoveWins #Pride2025 #LoveIsLove

#CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #OhioState #OSU #ClevelandConCoction #CleCon #Marcon #MarconOH #Pennsic #PennsicWar #SocietyForCreativeAnachronism #SCA #MySCA

This past weekend some of the "Doctor Who" fandom celebrated TikTok Galliday with fan made content! We love staging our parody plays including mixing science-fiction with historic commedia dell'arte improv theatre from the Italian Renaissance!

"The fact that it's science fiction gives you the license to do anything you want to do." --Lindsay Wagner

#MondayMotivation

#CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #Marcon #MarconOH #SciFiCon #Parody #DoctorWho #Dalek #TARDIS

TODAY (April 25) we celebrate our troupe's 19th birthday so let's do a retrospective countdown!

Watch here: https://youtu.be/mStBdt0PAr4

#CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #Pennsic #PennsicWar #SCA #SocietyForCreativeAnachronism #MySCA #Parody #DoctorWho #Dalek #CWRU #Anime #Marcon #ClevelandConCoction #CleCon

3 days until the troupe's 19th birthday so we're retrospectively counting down continuing with Year 17 when the world more reopened 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"!

(By chance our countdown for this bawdy and scandalous show landed on National Pin-Up Day today!)

#CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #GirlGenius #Parody #GaslampFantasy #Comics #Marcon #MarconOH

8 days until the troupe's 19th birthday so we're retrospectively counting down continuing with Year 12 we were joined by famous commedia dell'arte troupe i Sebastiani out of Boston to finally stage "The Heterodyne Boys & the Race to the West Pole", a long-time project to adapt the play briefly scene 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!

#CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #GirlGenius #Parody #GaslampFantasy #Comics #Marcon #MarconOH

15 days until the troupe's 19th birthday so we're retrospectively counting down continuing with Year 5 when we kept the momentum going with an even bigger season, the highlight the premiere of "Dottore Who & the Zealous Ones" where our bumbling parody time traveler meets the most famous commedia dell'arte troupe in history during a foolish alien invasion of the Italian Renaissance! Still one of our finest performances to date that also introduced our signature short play "It All Makes Sense Now!"!

#CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #Marcon #MarconOH #SciFiCon #Parody #DoctorWho

Holiday or no holiday, the Players of the Patchwork will take any excuse to wear green! 🤣

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#Green #WearGreen #CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Theater #SocietyForCreativeAnachronism #SCA #Dalek #DoctorWho #Parody #RockyHorror #RHPS #CWRU #Marcon #MarconOH #Cleftlands #Midrealm

Commedia dell'arte is all about romantic escapades! Here's a montage of our "Lovers Approach" lazzo!

#CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #Pennsic #PennsicWar #SocietyForCreativeAnachronism #SCA #MySCA #Cleftlands #Midrealm #Marcon #OSU #OhioState #ClevelandConCoction #CleCon

The election is less than week away and early voting is ongoing!

Don't leave the outcome up to random chance! Do your research on both candidates and issues and make a plan how to vote.

Important Dates for Ohio Voters:
➤10/8 - 11/4: Early In-Person & Mail-In Voting
➤11/5: Election Day (vote in-person or drop off absentee ballot)

#vote #vote2024 #election #election2024

#CommediaDellArte #commedia #improv #improvisation #theater #D20 #DnD #Marcon #MarconOH

If you plan to vote by mail THIS TUESDAY (October 29) is the deadline to request your absentee ballot.

However you will vote, please make a plan and do your research on both the candidates so you can make informed choices.

Important Dates for Ohio Voters:
➤10/8 - 11/4: Early In-Person & Mail-In Voting
➤10/29: Absentee Ballot Request Deadline
➤11/5: Election Day (vote in-person or drop off absentee ballot)

#vote #vote2024 #election #election2024

#CommediaDellArte #commedia #improv #improvisation #theater #Marcon #MarconOH

This and every election, make sure you do research on both the candidates and the issues so you can make the most informed choices at the polls - and make a plan now how to cast your ballot!

Important Dates for Ohio Voters:
➤10/7: Registration Deadline
➤10/8 - 11/4: Early In-Person & Mail-In Voting
➤10/29: Absentee Ballot Request Deadline
➤11/5: Election Day (vote in-person or drop off absentee ballot)

Voting is important every election - make your voice be heard!

See some voting resources: https://www.vote.org/

#vote #vote2024 #election #election2024

#CommediaDellArte #commedia #improv #improvisation #theater #Marcon #MarconOH #ScienceFictionConvention #SciFiCon

Today is National Voter Registration Day! Even zany fools know to make sure you're registered to vote and have a plan how to cast your ballot!

Important Dates for Ohio Voters:
➤10/7: Registration Deadline
➤10/8 - 11/4: Early In-Person & Mail-In Voting
➤10/29: Absentee Ballot Request Deadline
➤11/5: Election Day (vote in-person or drop off absentee ballot)

Voting is important every election - make your voice be heard!

See some voting resources: https://www.vote.org/

#vote #vote2024 #election #election2024

#CommediaDellArte #commedia #improv #improvisation #theater #Marcon #MarconOH #ScienceFictionConvention #SciFiCon