Life, after a fashion, is time travel: one second per second into the future. So the laugh you share today may be happiness that spreads tomorrow.

"Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming." --Alice Walker

#MondayMotivation

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

Life, after a fashion, is time travel: one second per second into the future. So the laugh you share today may be happiness that spreads tomorrow.

"Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming." --Alice Walker

#MondayMotivation

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

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

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

During our murder mystery commedia dell'arte "The Unusual Suspects" at Pennsic 2025, Players of the Patchwork Elio Fidelis and Larisa West entertained us for the first intermezzo!

You can catch the full video of the three-act performance on our YouTube.

#CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #Pennsic #PennsicWar #SCA #SocietyForCreativeAnachronism #MySCA #Bard #Bards #Bardic #Music #Song #Singing #Singer #History

During our murder mystery commedia dell'arte "The Unusual Suspects" at Pennsic 2025, Players of the Patchwork Elio Fidelis and Larisa West entertained us for the first intermezzo!

You can catch the full video of the three-act performance on our YouTube.

#CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #Pennsic #PennsicWar #SCA #SocietyForCreativeAnachronism #MySCA #Bard #Bards #Bardic #Music #Song #Singing #Singer #History

Today marks the return of one of our favorite programs of all time: "The Muppet Show"!

During our modernized commedia dell'arte parody "May the Farce Be With You?" at Marcon in 2015, hopeful Luccio was sent to a swamp planet to find a particular Jeddy Master to train him in the ways of the Farce....

#CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #Parody #StarWars #Muppets #Kermit #KermitTheFrog #Puppets #Yoda #Jedi #SciFi #ScienceFiction

Today marks the return of one of our favorite programs of all time: "The Muppet Show"!

During our modernized commedia dell'arte parody "May the Farce Be With You?" at Marcon in 2015, hopeful Luccio was sent to a swamp planet to find a particular Jeddy Master to train him in the ways of the Farce....

#CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #Parody #StarWars #Muppets #Kermit #KermitTheFrog #Puppets #Yoda #Jedi #SciFi #ScienceFiction

It's Groundhog's Day! Again... But don't; we've got you. babe with a clip from our "time travel" parody traditional commedia dell'arte at Cleveland ConCoction 2023!

"The eight laws of learning are explanation, demonstration, imitation, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition." --John Wooden

#MondayMotivation #GroundhogsDay

We'll be back to ConCoction in just over a month and a month after that we'll have a "space travel" parody traditional commedia dell'arte for Ohio State!

#CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #ClevelandConCoction #CleCon #TimeTravel #SciFi #ScienceFiction #Parody

It's Groundhog's Day! Again... But don't; we've got you. babe with a clip from our "time travel" parody traditional commedia dell'arte at Cleveland ConCoction 2023!

"The eight laws of learning are explanation, demonstration, imitation, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition." --John Wooden

#MondayMotivation #GroundhogsDay

We'll be back to ConCoction in just over a month and a month after that we'll have a "space travel" parody traditional commedia dell'arte for Ohio State!

#CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #ClevelandConCoction #CleCon #TimeTravel #SciFi #ScienceFiction #Parody

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