Our first real day of Pennsic! First stop - merchants!

Well, after a leisurely wake-up and breakfast. It was already feeling pretty warm but we went out to enjoy the day. We headed over to one of our favorite merchants, T'ger Togg's who sells wonderful patchwork items - they're where I got my patchwork doublet, long coast, Awesome Hat of Awesome, ( Read more... )

I go up fairly early and stepped out of my tent to find the world bathed in mist and fog. I've seen that before but not to this degree and not in this part of Pennsic. I grabbed my camera and took a stroll down to the lake to get some nice pictures. Not usually this late in the day either; kept the sun and heat off for awhile... but not long enough ( Read more... )

I'll be recapping my time at Pennsic day-by-day so it might take awhile to get through all of these ( Read more... )

Yesterday we finalized the cast for Pantalone's Pouch, our play for the Pennsic Performing Arts Pavilion! We'll be going on Saturday, August 4 at 9:00pm.

Parti Ridicole

Pantalone, a miserly old bachelor -- Chuck Minch
Flavio, his son, believes himself in love with Isabella -- Rowan Kramer
Colombina, their sassy young maid -- Emily Miller
Dottore ( Read more... )

*Note: this post starts off about Pennsic but leads into an event for The Confused Greenies

It was the middle Saturday, my first full day at Pennsic. I had just participated in a workshop on Japanese kyōgen theatre (more on that later) and was walking with a new friend (who is starting his own commedia troupe in Æthelmearc). I was heading back ( Read more... )

(For lack of thinking of any particular order to post these, I'll just come up by topic when I feel like writing ( Read more... )

Okay, been back for a few days now - but been sick! Some highlights with more details later ( Read more... )

Seen on zsof's blog - and since Pennsic officially begins in about 24 hours (though I'm not going until a week later) I should post this now ( Read more... )

( The Carriage of Love - the actual performance )

So we rehearsed on Tuesday, twice on Wednesday, and twice on Thursday and finally hammered out something usable.

( The Carriage of Love )