“In the universe, there are things that are known,

and things that are unknown,
and in between them, there are doors.”

William Blake

patricia krahnke
playwright

Next Up
Robbi at The Confluence
Chicago Developmental Reading • Spring 2026

One crappy diner.
Three lovesick Civil War ghost soldiers.
And one short order cook named Robbi - who's havin' none of it.

The Deets

5 actors • 9 characters • 1 simple set • 75 minute run time

Set in a haunted diner in John Brown’s Harpers Ferry, split between 1864 and 2025,
the play follows Robbi, a 20-year-old cook and aspiring poet desperate to escape.

But three ghostly soldiers—Black, White, and four-spirit Cherokee, each in love with her—
won’t let her go. Reborn in her present life, they bind Robbi to the past she’s fighting to outrun.