The artist. The creative process. The struggle. As an audience member, we are exposed to each of those elements. My favorite was the process. The more intimate setting of the Dowling Studio played well in terms of inviting me into the mind of Langston Hughes. As the play opens, we see Gavin Lawrence (Hughes) struggling with composing a poem that seems to have kept him up all night. Throughout the course of the first half, we get a sentence here, then striken, then rewritten, and when it fits just right, typed up and set aside as a piece of what eventually will become Georgia Dusk (see above). As someone who writes, the way in which this was executed was simply fascinating. Afterall, very few people simply sit and write a poem - it is something that lives and grows and to watch this occur live on stage was simply put, wonderful.