Archives: 2011-12 Season
Blatnoy Blues
Monday, May 7, 2012
FIRST MONDAYS presented a reading of Blatnoy Blues, a quirky new comedy by Eoin Carney on Monday, May 7 at 7:30 p.m. at Judson Manor. Winner of the 2012 Lake Erie Playwright Competition sponsored by Cuyahoga Community College, Blatnoy Blues tracks the meteoric rise of Pyotr Shcherbarov, a Russian physicist who alternately charms and strong-arms his way to the top in a Midwestern University. The cast features Jonathan Wilhelm as the wily Shcherbarov and includes Joe Verciglio and Tim Keo.
Originally from Ireland, playwright Eoin (pronounced Owen) Carney is an Assistant Professor of Radiology at the University of Pittsburgh. His first play, Underlings, was read at the 2004 Pittsburgh New Works Festival and, in 2008, at the Great Plains Theatre Conference. His ten-minute plays have been produced in the USA, the UK, South Korea and Malaysia.
Originally from Ireland, playwright Eoin (pronounced Owen) Carney is an Assistant Professor of Radiology at the University of Pittsburgh. His first play, Underlings, was read at the 2004 Pittsburgh New Works Festival and, in 2008, at the Great Plains Theatre Conference. His ten-minute plays have been produced in the USA, the UK, South Korea and Malaysia.
Take Nine
Monday, April 2, 2012
Take Nine is a group of nine Cleveland area poets who read, eat and write together. FIRST MONDAYS welcomed these very special performers to the Judson Manor stage on Monday, April 2 at 7:30 p.m. Among the group are two former Cleveland Heights Poet Laureates, winners of Individual Artist Fellowships from the Ohio Arts Council and CPAC (the Community Partnership for Arts and Culture), editors of literary journals and anthologies, poetry workshop instructors, arts managers winners of awards from Northern Ohio Live, the Ohio Educational Broadcasting Corporation and the Cleveland Press Club, among others.
Together their work has been published in more than 100 local and national journals, anthologies, e-journals, and soon on a music and poetry CD. But above all they are nine friends who laugh together on a regular basis and challenge and support eac other in their shared love of the written and spoken word.
Together their work has been published in more than 100 local and national journals, anthologies, e-journals, and soon on a music and poetry CD. But above all they are nine friends who laugh together on a regular basis and challenge and support eac other in their shared love of the written and spoken word.
Lives of the Saints
Monday, March 5, 2012
They’re an Irish American sibling family – five brothers and sisters in their 70s and 80s who have never married and are still living in the house their father built for the family in 1920. South side Irish they are and set in their ways.But like it or not, change is coming. Their niece Ada Clare, God bless her, has been seeing to their needs for many years. And hasn’t she gone and taken up with a fancy lawyer from Washington, DC? Of course the family is set against him, except for Annie. She keeps remembering the boy she loved back in the day and the life she might have had if her brother Ned hadn’t interfered.With this one for him and that one against him, the house is in an uproar. There’s no telling what will happen, so we hope you saw for yourself on Monday, March 5 at 7:30 p.m. at Judson Manor. There’s some fine acting to be seen and heard – with the likes of Glenn and Jean Colerider, Bernice Bolek, Robert Hawkes and Linda Ryan reading all the parts.
One-on-One
Monday, February 6, 2012
_The opening scenes of One-on-One,
a new play by Edward J. Walsh and Robert T. Noll, take us to a deserted
basketball court where “Shins” Shinski and his best friend Tony used to
play one-on-one. “We hit it off right away, Tony and me, for two
reasons, I think,” Shins tells us. “One was, like me, he didn’t have no
old man at home ... Another reason was basketball.” Time has passed but
memory brings the players back again – Tony and Shins and the black kid
they called Sunny, the one who had the nerve to cross 1-2-5 – back to
that court and to the fateful day that changed their lives.
Racial tensions erupt on a basketball court in the “Old Neighborhood” in One-on-One, a new play by Edward J. Walsh and Robert T. Noll read by FIRST MONDAYS at Judson Manor on Monday, February 6 at 7:30 p.m. One-on-One features Rod Lawrence, Skip Corris, Joe Verciglio, George Clements and Bryan Heard.
Both authors in their own right, Bob Noll and Ed Walsh have been writing plays together since the early '80s and their collaborations have been seen locally, in Kansas City, at the Barter Theatre in Virginia and in many off-off Broadway houses in New York. One-on-One was a semi-finalist for the National Playwrights Conference (The O’Neill) in 2011.
FIRST MONDAYS audiences will remember Hedda, a retelling of the Ibsen classic by Bob and his wife Pamela, that was read in January 2010.
Racial tensions erupt on a basketball court in the “Old Neighborhood” in One-on-One, a new play by Edward J. Walsh and Robert T. Noll read by FIRST MONDAYS at Judson Manor on Monday, February 6 at 7:30 p.m. One-on-One features Rod Lawrence, Skip Corris, Joe Verciglio, George Clements and Bryan Heard.
Both authors in their own right, Bob Noll and Ed Walsh have been writing plays together since the early '80s and their collaborations have been seen locally, in Kansas City, at the Barter Theatre in Virginia and in many off-off Broadway houses in New York. One-on-One was a semi-finalist for the National Playwrights Conference (The O’Neill) in 2011.
FIRST MONDAYS audiences will remember Hedda, a retelling of the Ibsen classic by Bob and his wife Pamela, that was read in January 2010.
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Archie's Girl
Monday, January 9, 2012
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“Very good, Madam.”
It’s fine to have Jeeves, your own personal butler, trailing along after you, echoing your every request--if you happen to be Bertie Wooster. But if you’re an independent-minded American who never thought much of her expatriate Dad and whose instincts are only confirmed by his extravagant pile of a house, that clown in the morning coat--who thinks it’s all good or “very good, madam” as he puts it--it is the last straw!
Featuring Glenn and Jean Colerider, Ursula Cataan, Dana Hart, Michael Regnier and Lauren B. Smith.
Listen to Jean's interview with Dee Perry on "Around Noon."
Around Noon Interview: Part One
“Very good, Madam.”
It’s fine to have Jeeves, your own personal butler, trailing along after you, echoing your every request--if you happen to be Bertie Wooster. But if you’re an independent-minded American who never thought much of her expatriate Dad and whose instincts are only confirmed by his extravagant pile of a house, that clown in the morning coat--who thinks it’s all good or “very good, madam” as he puts it--it is the last straw!
Featuring Glenn and Jean Colerider, Ursula Cataan, Dana Hart, Michael Regnier and Lauren B. Smith.
Listen to Jean's interview with Dee Perry on "Around Noon."
Around Noon Interview: Part One
Around Noon Interview: Part Two
Around Noon Interview: Scene
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Pray for the Missing Girls
November 4, 5, 10, 11 and 12 at 8:00pm
November 6 and 13 at 2:00pm
You saw Pray for the Missing Girls when it was read by First Mondays at Dobama Theatre in November and December of 2009. It went on to win the Lake Erie Playwright Competition sponsored by Tri-C last Spring and was also a semi-finalist in the new play completion sponsored by MultiStages, a Manhattan-based theater that specializes in multi-cultural, multi-disciplinary works.
Tri-C has invested substantially in this production, including an entry in the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival which convenes on a Midwestern campus in the first week of January. An invitation to the Festival at the regional level would be the perfect entry to the college and university market so we’re keeping our fingers crossed.
Tri-C has invested substantially in this production, including an entry in the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival which convenes on a Midwestern campus in the first week of January. An invitation to the Festival at the regional level would be the perfect entry to the college and university market so we’re keeping our fingers crossed.