[NEohioPAL] The Phantasmagorical Contraptions of Dr. A. P. Pliance: a Victorian Steampunk Comedy [12/10 & 12/11]

[Jess Rudolph]

The Confused Greenies
Presents a Patchwork Players Production

<http://filer.case.edu/org/commedia/plays/2009-12-10_The-Phantasmagorical-Contraptions.html>The 
Phantasmagorical Contraptions of Dr. A. P. 
<http://filer.case.edu/org/commedia/plays/2009-12-10_The-Phantasmagorical-Contraptions.html>Pliance
A Victorian Steampunk Comedy
by Gillian Daniels & Aaron Teiser
Thursday, December 10: 8:00pm
Friday, December 11: 8:00pm
<http://www.case.edu/>Case Western Reserve 
University - <http://wiki.case.edu/Nord_Hall>Nord Hall 410
(see this 
<http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Nord&mrt=all&sll=41.497569,-81.595502&sspn=0.01117,0.01929&ie=UTF8&hq=Nord&hnear=&ll=41.501812,-81.602154&spn=0.011169,0.01929&z=16&iwloc=A&cid=5109647858752181403>Google 
map - free parking off MLK Drive in the employee lot open in the evenings)

It's Clockwork Patchwork in our silly 
steam-fueled farce of Victorian melodramatic 
comedy in the improvised style of the Italian 
Commedia dell'Arte and the British Harlequinade! 
The doophy inventor, Doctor A. P. Pliance, is 
building yet another contraption! But... what 
does it do? Could it be a new airship motor? A 
difference engine? A tea kettle? But before the 
Doctor can try to figure out his own device, 
he'll have to contend with the sappy romance 
between his niece Lucinda and the clueless 
adventurer Horatio, the miserliness of his 
landlord, Pantaloon Bumble, the bumbling of his 
zany assistant, Harlequin, and the literal 
machinations of the clockwork doll Columbine! 
It's a goofy gadget, crazy cog, steam-powered 
slapstick clockwork comedy by Nineteenth Century Standards!

The Ridiculous Parts of the Contraption
Doctor A. P. Pliance (an inventor of steampunk contraptions) -- Chuck Minch
Lucinda Pliance (his niece, a débutante [First 
Night]) -- Paula Carver [12/10] & Julie Beckers [12/11]
Harlequin (the doctor's lab assistant & street urchin) -- Jess Rudolph
Columbine (a clockwork doll and maid) -- Megan Matthews
Pantaloon Bumble (a miserly landlord) -- Greg Tongue
Horatio Bumble (his son, an airship pilot) -- Mike Brown
Professor Pepperpot (a rival scientist) -- Lars Benthien

To celebrate the end to the most successful year 
of The Confused Greenies (this marks our 29th and 
30th performances of 2009!) we are also holding 
the proper Victorian treat, an ice cream sundae 
social with ice cream provided by 
<http://www.toftdairy.com/>Toft's<http://www.toftdairy.com/> 
Dairy of Sandusky, Ohio - the best ice cream around!

Our performance begins at 8:00pm on both 
Thursday, December 10 & Friday, December 
11.  Both our hilarious performance and the ice 
cream sundae social are free!  Parking is 
available for free in the employee lot off of MLK 
Drive (labeled as Stokes Blvd on the Google map) 
behind the buildings of the main campus including Nord Hall.

Please see the 
<http://filer.case.edu/org/commedia/plays/2009-12-10_The-Phantasmagorical-Contraptions.html>webpage 
and online posters 
(<http://filer.case.edu/org/commedia/ads/2009-12-10_The-Phantasmagorical-Contraptions_brief.pdf>brief 
[5 MB] and 
<http://filer.case.edu/org/commedia/ads/2009-12-10_The-Phantasmagorical-Contraptions.pdf>full 
[82 MB], .PDFs) for more information and 
photographs.  Please email lazzi at case.edu with any questions!

foolishly yours,


Jess Rudolph (Niccolò Bartolazzi), Capocomico of 
the Patchwork Players Productions:
The Confused Greenies - the Greatest, Loudest, 
and Most Pompous Commedia dell'Arte troupe at Case Western Reserve University
i Verdi Confusi - the Greatest of the Newest 
Commedia dell'Arte troupe in Northern Oaken of the Midrealm

http://filer.case.edu/org/commedia/

-a hungry, hapless, and hopeful harlequin
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