[NEohioPAL] ON MONDAY. FEBRUARY 6, FIRST MONDAYS TAKES YOU BACK TO "THE OLD NEIGHBORHOOD"

[Jean Seitter Cummins]

On Monday, February 6, FIRST MONDAYS takes you back to “the Old
 Neighborhood”

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, William
Goff 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 as well as in Kansas City, at the Barter Theatre in Virginia and
off-off Broadway 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.

Please note our new location and time change.  FIRST MONDAYS is now
performing at Judson Manor and the reading begins at 7:30 p.m.  Judson is
located at 1890 East 107th Street just across the street from the “Church of
the Holy Oil Can” (University Circle United Methodist Church at the corner
of Euclid and MLK).

If you’re new to University Circle, note that there are two Judson
residences.  You’re heading for the one just off 107th and Chester – JUDSON
MANOR.  Admission is $5 at the door.  Park free in a gated lot that is just
steps away from the Judson Manor lobby.