ISBN #1-60513-001-x

(See also Robert Joseph Ahola's Pavlov's Cats, Year of the Tiger, Dr. Max Love & High Tea/With His Excellency)

The Cast

	CHRISTOPHER MUMMER <Scorekeeper>: Late 40s-50s, over-the-hill, Hollywood drop-out, ex-Tony Award-winning writer-director, he is now banished to a small repertory playhouse in Connecticut and feels as if the world has passed him by. He is also, due to a recent accident, confined to a wheelchair and has been officially written-off as a paraplegic. But, handicapped or not, he is resolutely determined to strike out at the minions of a nihilistic future as he sees it, and will continue to do so with every last breath in hi s rather windy bank of lungs.
	SARAH MUMMER: Mummer’s very attractive but long suffering wife. A bright, often sarcastic woman, in her 40s she is powerfully bonded to him in what their best friend describes as “an orgy of co-dependency.” Aware of his many affairs, she tends to be a cryptic drinker. And yet there is so much more to the dynamic of this couple than the clichés might indicate.
	OWEN PAXTON: Mummer’s best friend and perennial Major Domo. An older man in his 50s, he seems to follow the fallen idol around as if he were his loyal retinue. An irreverent, accomplished actor, he has also mastered the art of candor in the face of all consequences. But he also has a deeper and more heartfelt purpose to his perennial involvement with the Mummers.
	PRIM/PAULA/MODERATOR 1: An attractive, young actress of great promise, she has a rather thinly disguised crush on Mummer and a very deliberate agenda behind it. In truth, she is neither all that young nor nearly as naive as she first appears.
	COBB/ DAVE/STAGEHAND: A very bright and irreverent young actor in the repertory. He is neither impressed nor solicitous of Mummer, and in fact has his reasons for not liking him at all. Perhaps it’s a similarity in personality.
	ROCK /DOUG/MODERATOR 2: A balanced young actor who is, in truth, anything but balanced and not altogether certain he even likes what he’s doing. (May be a person of color.)
	SAMANTHA ONAN <Sam>: A famous show business diva sliding down from the summit of her career, she seems to be everyone’s personal Nemesis. Little doubt that she is also “the other woman.” The question is who’s other woman is she? Sam is also Owen Paxton’s ex-wife and Nemesis, as well as someone’s former lover. But whose if not everyone’s? And why is everyone so terrified of her?

Synopsis

Producer-Playwright, Christopher Mummer, is on a personal Crusade to stop the terminal “dumbing down” of America, and he will resort to any means necessary to do so… Any means!

Former (legendary) Broadway and Hollywood writer/producer Christopher Mummer has recently become an invalid and, out of choice, has banished himself to become the Artistic Director of a small Connecticut playhouse. Here, surrounded by his own loyal entourage of former industry players and young show-business hopefuls, he is determined to stop the terminal “dumbing down of America” in a society that no longer has a sense of itself, and the abolition of integrity in just about everything else. What’s more, often to the frustration, chagrin and amusement of all those around him, he is almost never wrong. (And he has the facts and figures to prove it.)

But beneath the veil of his outspoken social, spiritual and artistic crusades, Christopher Mummer harbors a secret — one that he will have to share eventually or lose his identity forever.

Set primarily on an undressed stage and jotted by a deliciously off-beat pair of “plays-within-a-play,” SCOREKEEPER is ultimately a story about the uncertain future of unconditional love and the search for it in a world filled with people who are increasingly self-possessed. As such it ties together the inter-connective paths of seven highly individualistic, fragile, funny and very human beings. 4M/3W

The Setting

The set is stark and futuristic.

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Author Biography
Robert Joseph Ahola is an author, playwright, screenwriter and producer who lives in Malibu, California. He has authored such plays as The Year of the Tiger, Judas Agonistes, High Tea/With His Excellency and Pavlov’s Cats, and is an author/co-author of eleven published books including Delusion is Good, The Silent Healer and I, Dragon. The Return of the Hummingbird Wizard is his seventh work of book length fiction.