The Dark Room is a place where writers take center stage and their work has a chance to grow. The Dark Room is an ongoing event held on the second Tuesday of each month. The Dark Room affords emerging and veteran playwrights the space and resources to develop new works. It offers a venue to workshop plays, novels, poems, or any other written work in a supportive, yet critical environment.

Tuesday, February 12th

7:00pm: Sign-up begins for writers and actors (space is limited). Writers can bring up to 10 pages of work to be read; actors will be cast on the spot!

7:30pm: Featured Reading of Would It Were Bedtime, and All Well by Robert Hawkes

8:15pm: Open Mic Session readings begin

Suggested donation of $5 is welcomed at the door, but not required.

ABOUT THE FEATURED READING:  Would It Were Bedtime, and All Well is a monologue by Sir John Falstaff, Western literature’s best-loved drunk. It is, in fact, his first “lead” (principal talk) for Alcoholics Anonymous, which he has joined in hopes of regaining the favor of Prince Hal, now Henry V. The situation is necessarily de-chronologized, but then the Fat Knight is a character for ages - his own and all subsequent. His struggle to find the foundation of a real sobriety might be anybody's. And what we recognize as his foolishness, selfishness, and cowardice in his recollection of some of his exploits is, as in the plays, our own vulnerable humanity.

ABOUT THE WRITER: Robert Hawkes is the author of four produced plays: The Importance of Waiting for the Eagle (CPT Big [BOX], 2014), Give Me the Map (convergence-continuum Tweener series, 2016), The Casual Tree Ward (convergence-continuum main stage, 2018), and The Silence of Dr & Mrs Caligari (Playwrights Local, 2018). He has acted at many Cleveland area theatres, and is a member of the acting company and Board of Directors at convergence-continuum, where he has appeared in seventeen plays.

Open session readings are first come, first serve until all slots have been allotted. All submissions should be made to Mindy Herman at herman.mindy@gmail.com or to John Busser at jpbusser@gmail.com .