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#MondayMotivation: September 7, 2026 Labor Day

Happy Labor Day! Take a moment today to remember that the good things that support modern society are thanks to countless labor of ourselves and those who came before to build!

"For every two minutes of glamour, there are eight hours of hard work." --Jessica Savitch

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

#MondayMotivation: September 7, 2026 Labor Day

Happy Labor Day! Take a moment today to remember that the good things that support modern society are thanks to countless labor of ourselves and those who came before to build!

"For every two minutes of glamour, there are eight hours of hard work." --Jessica Savitch

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

#MondayMotivation: September 7, 2026 Labor Day

Happy Labor Day! Take a moment today to remember that the good things that support modern society are thanks to countless labor of ourselves and those who came before to build!

"For every two minutes of glamour, there are eight hours of hard work." --Jessica Savitch

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

#MondayMotivation: September 7, 2026 Labor Day

Happy Labor Day! Take a moment today to remember that the good things that support modern society are thanks to countless labor of ourselves and those who came before to build!

"For every two minutes of glamour, there are eight hours of hard work." --Jessica Savitch

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

#MondayMotivation: September 7, 2026 Labor Day

Happy Labor Day! Take a moment today to remember that the good things that support modern society are thanks to countless labor of ourselves and those who came before to build!

"For every two minutes of glamour, there are eight hours of hard work." --Jessica Savitch

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

It's September 6 so you can Fight Procrastination Day with National Read a Book Day!

Are we immune from procrastinating? Nope. Despite presenting amazing commedia dell'arte (such as our encore performance one of our favorite plays, "The Hazards of Hunting Redcaps" at One World Day in Cleveland's Italian Cultural Garden last week) we often have to pull everything together (from writing the scenario to rehearsing to costumes and props) at the last minute... and yet we do and it's majestic!

But we also always encourage reading. Read books and never stop learning!

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

It's September 6 so you can Fight Procrastination Day with National Read a Book Day!

Are we immune from procrastinating? Nope. Despite presenting amazing commedia dell'arte (such as our encore performance one of our favorite plays, "The Hazards of Hunting Redcaps" at One World Day in Cleveland's Italian Cultural Garden last week) we often have to pull everything together (from writing the scenario to rehearsing to costumes and props) at the last minute... and yet we do and it's majestic!

But we also always encourage reading. Read books and never stop learning!

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

It's September 6 so you can Fight Procrastination Day with National Read a Book Day!

Are we immune from procrastinating? Nope. Despite presenting amazing commedia dell'arte (such as our encore performance one of our favorite plays, "The Hazards of Hunting Redcaps" at One World Day in Cleveland's Italian Cultural Garden last week) we often have to pull everything together (from writing the scenario to rehearsing to costumes and props) at the last minute... and yet we do and it's majestic!

But we also always encourage reading. Read books and never stop learning!

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

It's September 6 so you can Fight Procrastination Day with National Read a Book Day!

Are we immune from procrastinating? Nope. Despite presenting amazing commedia dell'arte (such as our encore performance one of our favorite plays, "The Hazards of Hunting Redcaps" at One World Day in Cleveland's Italian Cultural Garden last week) we often have to pull everything together (from writing the scenario to rehearsing to costumes and props) at the last minute... and yet we do and it's majestic!

But we also always encourage reading. Read books and never stop learning!

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

It's September 6 so you can Fight Procrastination Day with National Read a Book Day!

Are we immune from procrastinating? Nope. Despite presenting amazing commedia dell'arte (such as our encore performance one of our favorite plays, "The Hazards of Hunting Redcaps" at One World Day in Cleveland's Italian Cultural Garden last week) we often have to pull everything together (from writing the scenario to rehearsing to costumes and props) at the last minute... and yet we do and it's majestic!

But we also always encourage reading. Read books and never stop learning!

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

It's the first Saturday of September - so that means it's officially the first #Caturday of Spooky Season! The kitties and the skelies and all the Players of the Patchwork Palace love the creative and colorful costumes that come with Halloween!

#Cat #Kitty #Cats #Kitties #Commedia #CommediaDellArte #Skeleton #Halloween #SpookySeason

"What Went Down in Goblin Town?" Find out soon when we release the full video of this grotesquely fantastical commedia dell'arte encored at Pennsic 53 last month!

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

Happy Calendar Adjustment Day! Don't lose track of your time!

The Gregorian (or "New Style") Calendar was adopted in Italy during the early days of commedia dell'arte. But it wouldn't be until 1752 when the American colonies made the change and September 2 was followed by September 14. Legend speaks of "calendar riots" as angry mobs demanded "give us our 11 days back!" But while this is likely more myth than fact, the changing system definitely caused chaos in our 2023 "time travel" commedia farce "Difficulties in Dating" staged at Cleveland ConCoction, Confluence, Pennsic, Marcon, and over Zoom for Commedia Day!

#CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #Comedy #Mask #ClevelandConCoction #CleCon #TimeTravel #SciFi #ScienceFiction #TimeChange #Calendar #History

#MondayMotivation: August 24, 2026 Remembering Tim Curry

The legacy of Tim Curry was a crucial element to the foundation of our troupe over twenty years ago. So we will continue to remember this great person and fabulous entertainment and take wisdom from his words on the craft as we always believe what we do makes the world at least a bit better one smile, one laugh, at a time.

"The way the world is, I think a silly evening in the theatre is a good thing, to take our minds off terror." --Tim Curry

#CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #Comedy #Mask #Midrealm #MiddleKingdom #SCA #SocietyForCreativeAnachronism #MySCA #TimCurry

We return to One World Day TODAY (Sunday, August 30) at 3:00pm in the Cleveland Cultural Gardens to perform more traditional commedia dell'arte at the beautiful and thematic Italian Cultural Gardens!

See more about the 80th annual OWD: https://www.clevelandoneworldday.org/2026/

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

We return to One World Day TOMMORROW (Sunday, August 30) at 3:00pm in the Cleveland Cultural Gardens to perform more traditional commedia dell'arte at the beautiful and thematic Italian Cultural Gardens!

See more about the 80th annual OWD: https://www.clevelandoneworldday.org/2026/

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

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

We return to One World Day this Sunday, August 30 at 3:00pm in the Cleveland Cultural Gardens to perform more traditional commedia dell'arte at the beautiful and thematic Italian Cultural Gardens!

See more about the 80th annual OWD: https://www.clevelandoneworldday.org/2026/

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

#MondayMotivation: August 24, 2026

For many it's the start of a new semester of learning...

"I have no use for people who have learned the limits of the possible." --Terry Pratchett

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

We return to One World Day one week from today on Sunday, August 30 at 3:00pm in the Cleveland Cultural Gardens to perform more traditional commedia dell'arte at the beautiful and thematic Italian Cultural Gardens!

See more about the 80th annual OWD: https://www.clevelandoneworldday.org/2026/

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

Three weeks ago tonight 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

We return to One World Day on Sunday, August 30 at 3:00pm in the Cleveland Cultural Gardens to perform more traditional commedia dell'arte at the beautiful and thematic Italian Cultural Gardens!

See more about the 80th annual OWD: https://www.clevelandoneworldday.org/2026/

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

We return to One World Day on Sunday, August 30 at 3:00pm in the Cleveland Cultural Gardens to perform more traditional commedia dell'arte at the beautiful and thematic Italian Cultural Gardens!

See more about the 80th annual OWD: https://www.clevelandoneworldday.org/2026/

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

Three weeks ago tonight it was double-trouble in our first commedia dell'arte performance at Pennsic 53, our own retelling of a classic scenario written in the mid-16th Century! Check back soon for the full video of i Verdi Confusi's performance of "The Unexpected Twin"!

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

We return to One World Day on Sunday, August 30 at 3:00pm in the Cleveland Cultural Gardens to perform more traditional commedia dell'arte at the beautiful and thematic Italian Cultural Gardens!

See more about the 80th annual OWD: https://www.clevelandoneworldday.org/2026/

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

We return to One World Day on Sunday, August 30 at 3:00pm in the Cleveland Cultural Gardens to perform more traditional commedia dell'arte at the beautiful and thematic Italian Cultural Gardens!

See more about the 80th annual OWD: https://www.clevelandoneworldday.org/2026/

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

August 18 is Bad Poetry Day! But that may be any day when you're the grotesquely lovestruck Rattio in our underground romantic farce "What Went Down in Goblin Town?" at Pennsic 53 earlier this month!

Check back soon for the full video of this fantastic farce!

#CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #Comedy #Mask #Pennsic #PennsicWar #SCA #SocietyForCreativeAnachronism #MySCA #Fantasy #Goblin #Goblins #LotR #Romance #Poetry #Poems #Love #LordOfTheRings

It's August 16 which means Capitano Testosteroné has a Joke of the Day for National Tell A Joke Day.... at least... if he can remember it?...

#CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #Comedy #Mask #Joke #DadJoke #DadJokeOfTheDay #Pun

August 14 is World Lizard Day? Well, Oratio may have celebrated earlier this month during our biggest commedia dell'arte performance of the year at Pennsic 53 when he drank one of "Pasquella's Powerful Potions" and transformed into a creature straight out of a medieval bestiary!

Check back soon for the full video of this fantastic farce!

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

Hey Buc-ee's Mini Mart...

We got beavers too. They featured in one of our best commedia dell'arte farces ever performed at Pennsic, back in 2023. You don't have a monopoly on these small furry critters.

We stand with Beavercreek in our home state of Ohio and all small businesses just trying to get by.

#CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #Comedy #Mask #Pennsic #PennsicWar #SCA #SocietyForCreativeAnachronism #MySCA #Beaver #Beavers #Bucees #Bevercreek #BevercreekOH

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!

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

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?!

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

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

On Saturday, April 25 we celebrate our troupe's big 20th birthday so we're doing a retrospective countdown!

Year 6 (2011 - 2012) was when we officially were on the schedule for Pennsic for the first time with an encore of "The Horoscope"!

Year 7 (2012 - 2013) saw some of our biggest performances ever as we celebrated the 50th anniversary of "Doctor Who" with several parodies including our Defenders of Neo-Nippon 3 Team Henshin-H anime crossover "Dottore Who & the Curse of the Fatal Fanservice"!

Year 8 (2013 - 2014) 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"!

Year 9 (2014 - 2015) when we prepared for trouble and made it double with our Defenders of Neo-Nippon 3 Team Henshin-H anime parody "QB's Used Wish Emporium" at at our alma mater Case Western Reserve University's Anime Marathon!

Year 10 (2015 - 2016) we went to a Patchwork Multiverse that's right over there with a bawdy commedia dell'arte parody of Star Wars and one of our punniest titles in "Looking for Love in Alderaan Places" as our first full length performance at Cleveland ConCoction!

Follow us and check back soon for the next set of years!

#CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #ClevelandConCoction #Pennsic #PennsicWar #SCA #SocietyForCreativeAnachronism #DoctorWho #Anime #SciFi #ScienceFiction #CWRU #CaseWesternReserveUniversity #CaseWesternReserve #Birthday #Anniversary #20Years

On Saturday, April 25 we celebrate our troupe's big 20th birthday so we're doing a retrospective countdown!

Year 1 (2006 - 2007) saw "The Days After the Days of the Valentine's" as our first performance under the banner of The Confused Greenies, a short modernized commedia dell'arte farce for the combined Carnevale & Mardi Gras celebration at our alma mater of Case Western Reserve University!

Year 2 (2007 - 2008) we adapted "The Horoscope" at CWRU as our first traditional commedia dell'arte full three-act play which we'd later encore several times as one of our faves!

Year 3 (2008 - 2009) we expanded from our traditional commedia dell'arte roots to study a different culture's historic improvised theatre in our first "Mad Words: the Art of Kyōgen" shows at CWRU's Anime Marathon!

Year 4 (2009 - 2010) the troupe got really active including modernized commedia dell'rte of both "Doctor Who" and our first musical parody of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show"!

Year 5 (2010 - 2011) 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!"

Follow us and check back soon for the next set of years!

#CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #CWRU #CaseWesternReserveUniversity #CaseWesternReserve #Birthday #Anniversary #20Years