Dobama Theatre ConcludesPlaywrights' GYM New Play Readings Series for 2016.17 The Playwrights' GYM, Dobama Theatre's playwriting unit, provides local playwrights with the opportunity to workshop new work. Nine readings of Playwright GYM members' work will be presenting at Dobama Theatre during their 2016/17 Season.All these readings are FREE and open to the public, with wine and beer available for a special GYM reading price of $1. All readings begin at 7 pm and are general seating. Monday, May 1Weimer by Les Hunter Directed by Anjanette HallA radical women's collective attempts to resist the authoritarian inclinations of their recently elected government. Based partially on research into contemporary and Weimar-era collectively organized communitarian projects, and in part developed out of conversations with the performers. The play, in the tradition of the German lehrstück (learning play), takes place in a heightened moment that borrows from both historic Weimar-era, Germany and contemporary America. Featuring: Brooke Turner, Sydnee Savannah Williams, Brittany Ganser, Bryce Evan Lewis, Kenzie Critzer and Esma M Eddeb Baldwin Wallace University Department of Theatre and Dance commissioned Weimar to appear as part of their 2017-2018 season. Act One will be read. Approximately 40 minutes with no intermission. Monday, May 8 Rastus and Hattie by Lisa LangfordNeedra is an African-American scientist who’s perfectly happy being perfectly post-racial; in fact, she’s researching a way to excise racial trauma from Black people’s DNA. Needra and her best friend Marlene, who is white, have the perfect post-racial friendship—perfect until Marlene’s husband finds two robots who challenge Needra’s understanding of race and history in America. In the early 1930s, Westinghouse experimented with mechanical robots who were supposed to make life easier by doing all the stuff humans didn’t want to do: cooking, cleaning, fighting wars, etc. However, one robot, Rastus, was Black. Seriously. He had brown skin, an afro, and was dressed not unlike a slave. I started wondering why a time-saving robot had to be Black and what did Blackness mean in post-Obama America. Rastus & Hattie comes out of all that. Featuring: Courtney Brown, Gordon Hinchen, Samantha Richards, Eric Sever, Amy Schwabauer and Greg White. Approximately 2 hours with an intermission Monday, February 6 The Dangerous House of Mookie Wilson by Cornell Calhoun III Cleveland, Ohio 1954. The Wilson Girls are all grown up and somebody just killed their daddy on 105th. Do they remain ladies or become gangsters?"If you roll the dice, you move the mice." Featuring: Darryl Tatum, Terrell Cole, Christine Johnson, Mia Jones, Leatron Twitty, Zoe Isabela McClain-Ferrell, Carla Macon and Courtney McLain Approximately 1 hour & 10 minutes with no intermission Dobama Theatre is located at 2340 Lee Road, Cleveland Heights, OH 44118 in the Library Annex Building of the Main Branch of the Cleveland Heights Public Library. For more information, please call 216.932.3396