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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

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

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

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

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

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

Tthe annual massive book sale hosted by our alma mater Case Western Reserve University continues trhough this Tuesday, June 2! Swing by 3631 Perkins Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44114 to browse thousands of used books and other material with deals getting better each day!

See more: https://www.acesite.org/book-sale-event

#Book #Books #BookSale #CWRU #CaseWesternReserveUniversity #CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #Comedy #Mask

For some, this may be the most wonderous weekend of the year as the annual massive book sale hosted by our alma mater Case Western Reserve University returns to it's near Downtown location: 3631 Perkins Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44114! Saturday, May 30 through Tuesday, June 2 you can browse thousands of used books and other material with deals getting better each day!

See more: https://www.acesite.org/book-sale-event

#Book #Books #BookSale #CWRU #CaseWesternReserveUniversity #CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #Comedy #Mask #Pennsic #PennsicWar #SCA #SocietyForCreativeAnachronism #MySCA

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

March 18 is Awkward Moments Day! But really, this is any day when you're a commedia dell'arte character!

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

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

It's a big sportsball weekend with not only the Superbowl tomorrow but also the Winter Olympics in northern Italy! Perhaps later this year, maybe we'll encore our commedia dell'arte about a Renaissance Italy predecessor to football, "A Comedic Farce of a Fraudulent Cow in Calcio Fiorentino"!

So we say, "Go favorite sportsball team! Move that ball to wherever better than the other sportsball team!"

#CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #Pennsic #PennsicWar #SCA #SocietyForCreativeAnachronism #MySCA #OhioState #OhioStateUniversity #OSU #Midrealm #ClevelandConCoction #CWRU #CaseWesternReserveUniversity #Football #SuperBowl #Olympics #Parody #Sports #Ball #Balls

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

It's just taking 2026 one step at a time...

Happy National Take the Stairs Day if you can (and okay if you can't)! We're taking steps toward our 20th anniversary and reminded of one of our earliest shows when we learned the Secrets of Cartoon Physics at Case Western Reserve University that in a farcical comedy any object (or foolish harlequin) falling from an extreme height will be slower than someone frantically running down the stairs of every story (often with repeated clips to save budget). So remember that if you're ever in a 'toon 'verse!

#CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #Cartoon #Cartoons #Toons #CartoonPhysics #CWRU #CaseWesternReserveUniversity #CaseWesternReserve #Stairs #TakeTheStairs

Oh the places we brought laughter in 2025! From Zipcon to Cleveland ConCoction, from Pennsic to One World Day, and a first time appearance at Barrington Elementary School!

Where will 2026 take us?

#CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #Pennsic #PennsicWar #SCA #SocietyForCreativeAnachronism #ClevelandConCoction #CleCon #Zipcon #2025 #YearEnd #InReview

"Oh no, Mimics again?!!"

One week ago, our definitely-human Chest E. Cognito attended Voyeuristic Intention's screening of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" at the CWRU Film Society cosplaying everyone's favorite dinner guest Eddie! Chesty was even one of Frank's Choice costume contest winners!

Visiting this shadowcast was a blast as VI was instrumental in the foundation of The Confused Greenies 19 years ago.

#CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #Mimic #DnD #DungeonsAndDragons #RockyHorror #RockyHorrorPictureShow #RHPS #CWRU #CaseWesternReserveUniversity #CaseWesternReserve #CWRUFilmSociety #Meatloaf #Halloween #Costume #Cosplay

"Oh no, Mimics again?!!"

One week ago, our definitely-human Chest E. Cognito attended Voyeuristic Intention's screening of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" at the CWRU Film Society cosplaying everyone's favorite dinner guest Eddie! Chesty was even one of Frank's Choice costume contest winners!

Visiting this shadowcast was a blast as VI was instrumental in the foundation of The Confused Greenies 19 years ago.

#CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #Mimic #DnD #DungeonsAndDragons #RockyHorror #RockyHorrorPictureShow #RHPS #CWRU #CaseWesternReserveUniversity #CaseWesternReserve #CWRUFilmSociety #Meatloaf

GREAT SCOTIANO!

What started as an April Fools Joke in 2022, turned into a fully written five-act commedia dell'arte pastorale time travel fantasy scenario in 2025! And maybe it will be staged in the near.... FUTURE!

October 21 is Back to the Future Day, celebrating a destination name in the classic sci-fi comedy! As one of our April Fools Day fake play ideas, we randomly brainstormed "Batte to the Future" - only to discover later that it would be a theme for the 2025 Cleveland ConCoction while at the same time we were studying historical fantasy theatre. The rest, as they say, is history... or is that future history?

Though it may no longer be the anniversary of the first film, hopefully we'll debut this play soon!

#CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #Pennsic #PennsicWar #SCA #SocietyForCreativeAnachronism #MySCA #SciFi #ScienceFiction #SF #TimeTravel #Parody #Fantasy #BackToTheFuture #BackToTheFutureDay #BttF

October 3 is World Smile Day 2025! We live by a mantra in our commedia dell'arte troupe: make the world better one laugh, one smile at a time. Especially in important in times of stress and uncertainty to find the happiness and create the joyful moments as we can.

#CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #OSU #OhioState #OhioStateUniversity #Smile #WorldSmileDay

A #MondayMotivation from one of our Dottore Who commedia dell'arte parodies to mark the season finale of "Doctor Who" over the weekend!

And sometimes costumes do reveal truths!

"Costume really helps you feel in character." --Ncuti Gatwa

#CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #CWRU #CaseWesternReserveUniversity #DoctorWho #DrWho #Parody

For some, this may be the most wonderous weekend of the year as the annual massive book sale hosted by our alma mater Case Western Reserve University returns - though albeit to a new location off campus toward downtown! Saturday through Tuesday browse thousands of used books and other material!

See more: https://www.acesite.org/book-sale-event

#Book #Books #BookSale #CWRU #CaseWesternReserveUniversity #CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater

Did you know #Caturday is a great day to catch William Shakespeare's "A Comedy of Errors" at our alma mater Case Western Reserve University?!

We went yesterday but you can still catch this play tonight and matinee tomorrow!

Though this play shares a lot of elements with commedia dell'arte it's actually inspired by the same Roman comedies that influenced commedia. But it's all that good farcical fun we love!

Get your tickets here: Theater.Case.Edu/Tickets

#Theater #CWRU #CaseWesternReserveUniversity #CaseWesternReserve #WilliamShakespeare #Shakespeare #CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation

16 days until the troupe's 19th birthday so we're retrospectively counting down continuing with Year 4 when the troupe got really active including modernized commedia dell'rte parodies of both "Doctor Who" and our first musical "The Rocky Horror Picture Show"!

And this year we're working another musical RHPS parody in traditional historic fantasy commedia pastorale style!

#CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #CWRU #CaseWesternReserveUniversity #CaseWesternReserve #RHPS #RockyHorror #RockyHorrorPictureShow #RockyHorrorShow #Musical #Dalek #DoctorWho

18 days until the troupe's 19th birthday so we're retrospectively counting down continuing with Year 2 when we adapted "The Horoscope" as our first traditional commedia dell'arte full three-act play which we'd later encore several times as one of our faves!

#CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #CWRU #CaseWesternReserveUniversity #CaseWesternReserve

Yesterday (April 6) was National Library Day to remind us of the vital role these institutions play in our society! Much of what we've learned about commedia dell'arte and countless other topics as well as joyful reading for fun has been made possible do to robust community libraries!

If you love libraries as much as we do, perhaps take a moment today to remind your elected officials how important they are to all of us.

"A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert." --Andrew Carnegie

#MondayMotivation

#CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #CWRU #CaseWesternReserveUniversity #CaseWesternReserve #Library #Libraries #Reading

In 19 days we celebrate the troupe's 19th birthday! So we're counting down our 19 years, starting with Year 1 and 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 Case Western Reserve University !

#CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #CWRU #CaseWesternReserveUniversity #CaseWesternReserve #Carnevale #Carnival

In all the focus on Commedia Day, we forgot to mention that this month marks the TWENTIETH anniversary of the first commedia dell'arte performance by our Artistic Director and Capopcomico Jess Rudolph while a student at Case Western Reserve University! That foundational show (for La Dolce Vita's Carnevale) helped pave the way for the formation of The Confused Greenies of Players' Patchwork Theatre Company a little over a year later!

Speaking of Carnevale at CWRU, it returns tomorrow night!

#CommediaDellArte #commedia #improv #improvisation #theater #CWRU #CaseWesternReserveUniversity #CaseWesternReserve #Carnevale #Carnival