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ROBERT JOSEPH AHOLA
Nationality: USA
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Robert Joseph ahola is an author, playwright, producer and director who lives in Malibu, California. He is an author/co-author of fourteen published books including the Silent Healer, the Return of the Hummingbird Wizard, and I, Dragon. He has scripted six screenplays produced or currently in production. among them: WORLD CLaSS/the Jerry Quarry Story, Whitman, a Tear in the Desert, and Billingsgate. He has authored ten published and/or produced full length plays, including the Year of the Tiger, HIGH Tea/With His excEllency, Dr. Max Love, Judas agonistes, SCOReKeePeR, Pavlov's Cats, the Decline and Fall of Us all, and NaRCISSUS: the Last Days of Lord Byron. His one act plays include the Last Othello, the Ghost and Josh Gibson, Finding the Greater Fool (all produced), and his newly released the Last Refuge. Death by Helium, a comedy, is his fifth one act. a winner of three Clios, Mr. ahola is a Board Member of the Malibu Stage Company and the Three Roses Players. He's a member of SaG/aFTRa, the alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights (aLaP), the authors Guild and the Dramatists Guild.
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Death By Helium Decline And Fall Of Us All, The Dr Max Love End Of Life Counselling Finding the Greater Fool Ghost And Josh Gibson, The High Tea With His Excellency Judas Agonistes Last Othello, The Last Refuge, The Meerkat Christmas, A Narcissus: the Last Days Of Lord Byron Pavlov's Cats Scorekeeper - the Uncertain Future Of Unconditional Love Trial Of the One-eyed Man, The Year Of the TigerDeath By Helium
Synopsis:
a hopelessly depressed young female stockbroker has decided to commit suicide by ingesting large quantities of helium. For better or worse, she has chosen to do so by a massive intake of party balloons. While sitting on a park bench and trying to inhale a large stock of them one at a time, she is encountered by a homeless (black) man with a large resume and an exceptionally spiritual outlook on life.
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a Death Wish. Party Balloons. And Angels Unaware.
1st Produced:
Crown City Theatre, North Hollywood, California 03 Apr 2011
Organisations:
Three Roses Players
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Genre:
25 min comedy
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Male: 2 Female: 1 Other: -
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Top of PageDecline And Fall Of Us All, The
It is the 21st Century sometime in the not-too-distant future, and the world as we know it has virtually come to an end. Not through any holocaust-everything has just stopped working! the rich hide in "walled-up" country club estates while no one really knows what the rest of the world is doing. Into the mystery of this muddled future, we find the Vanowen clan in their decaying Faulknerian mansion on the fairway of Rock Ridge Country Club, proudly aristocratic and clinging to the shards of their culture like a drowning man to flotsam. as we meet these cultural throwbacks, we also behold a world sadly amusing and frail beyond belief, especially when some "Outsiders" are captured and change the dynamics forever. 110 minutes.
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New Release. To be published in 2010, by JaC Publishing And Promotions. www.jacpub.com
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JAC Publishing, 2010 978-1605130828
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Genre:
Comedy
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Male: 4 Female: 3 Other: -
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Top of PageDr Max Love
Synopsis:
Question: Will our next levels of computers be angels? answer: Meet Dr. Max Love. the time is the very near future. the year is 2030. Dr. Max Love is a handsome, dashing love machine with a 200+ IQ, a Ph.D. in clinical psychology, and an M.D. in neurology. He is a Renaissance man, a great wit, a brilliant conversationalist, and a sensitive caring friend. He is also a custom-designed, test market android leased by two women executives, one of whom treats him like a "sex appliance," and the other who has fallen deeply in love with him. When a male rival comes barging in to challenge Dr. Max, what begins as a sex comedy ends in a spiritual probe into uncharted metaphysical waters. On the Wheel of Life as many of us perceive it to be, does the soul seek intelligence? Or does intelligence seek a soul?
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In development As A feature film. 90 Minutes.
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JAC Publishing, Apr 2005 978-1933159942
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Genre:
Comedy/Drama
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Male: 2 Female: 3 Other: -
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Top of PageEnd Of Life Counselling
Synopsis:
Government officials advising people which planet to go to as this one is dying
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Genre:
Short play
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Male: 3 Female: 4 Other: -
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Top of PageFinding the Greater Fool
Synopsis:
the Rogues Roundtable-an annual convention of the world's most renowned con artists, forgers, and swindlers-convenes in Ibiza, Spain every year. In the midst of this, an elite core group of multimillionaire bunko artists are holding a cocktail party to find new ways to spend their ill-gotten gains. Joining them a beautiful new entrepreneur has come with their annual report, and a brilliant new way to invest their money "legitimately." One-act.
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New Release 2010. One Act. Running time: 35 minutes.
1st Produced:
St Matthews Church, 11031 Camarillo Street, Noho, Ca 91602 23 Jan 2011
Organisations:
Three Roses Players at the CROWN CITY Theatre
1st Published:
JAC Publishing & Promotions 1605131318
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Genre:
Comedy One act
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Male: 4 Female: 1 Other: -
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Top of PageGhost And Josh Gibson, The
Synopsis:
Josh Gibson and Satchel Paige, both black and arguably the two greatest baseball players who ever lived, meet on a warm winter night in 1947 just before Jackie Robinson is brought up to the Brooklyn Dodgers as the first African American ever to play Major League Baseball. a poignant last encounter between two baseball legends takes place when pitcher, Satchel, learns that Josh ("the Black Babe Ruth") is dying of terminal brain cancer.
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Winner - One Act Festival At the Malibu Stage Company. 2006. One Act. 30 minutes.
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JAC Publishing, Jul 2007 978-1605130026
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Genre:
One act
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Male: 2 Female: 1 Other: 2 (audio)
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Top of PageHigh Tea With His Excellency
Synopsis:
a proper english Baron stranded in a small Texas town regularly takes "high tea" with the local country club ladies, only to have their reverie interrupted by a crude but colorful oil tycoon and his naive legal counsel. But this time-when "High Tea" trickles into the cocktail hour, and the "cocktail hour" develops into a drunken symposium-the Baron Raymond Van Peldt and the oil tycoon Ira "Candy" Cane challenge the Thursday afternoon "Tea Ladies" to a bout of Truth or Dare, and end up getting far more than they bargained for. Suitable for adults.* * Gender Bias, Homophobia, Bisexuality, Unfettered erotic Fantasy, anti-Semitism, Unrequited Love, Thinly Concealed Lust, Genuine Denouement, Strong Spiritual Undertones, Ultimate Redemption and an Unforgettable Cast of Characters - HIGH Tea has it all!
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Winner Long Beach Playhouse Play Festival 2005. 135 Minutes.
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JAC Publishing, Oct 2006 978-1933159614
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Genre:
Comedy
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Male: 3 Female: 4 Other: -
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Top of PageJudas Agonistes
Synopsis:
In 1929, a young man from a well-to-do family has been institutionalized because he is convinced that he's the reincarnation of Judas Iscariot, the betrayer of Jesus. He is also something of a prophet with an uncanny ability to predict the future as well as remembering every detail of his life nearly 2000 years ago. as his last best hope he is being treated by a Jungian therapist who is also a self-proclaimed agnostic. a classic clash of belief systems also becomes history's most intriguing detective story, and possibly its greatest love story. 95 Minutes.
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Winner of Two Play Festivals. 95 minutes.
1st Produced:
Malibu Stage Company Feb 2006
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Genre:
Play/Drama
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Male: 4 Female: 2 Other: -
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Top of PageLast Othello, The
Paul Robeson and Uta Hagen who once headlined the longest running Shakespeare ever on Broadway, and who spent a large portion of their careers on "the HUaC Blacklist," meet 20 years later, just before Robeson's last performance of Othello at Stratford-on-avon. a poignant portrait of the most powerful influence for political change in the history of Black America, the Last Othello gives a shattering insight into Paul Robeson in his later years - a Promethean actor, singer and activist who ultimately became a casualty to his own courage and unwillingness to bend.
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One-act. Running time 45 minutes.
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JAC Publishing, Jun 2008 978-1605130309
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Genre:
One act
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Male: 1 Female: 2 Other: -
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Top of PageLast Refuge, The
Synopsis:
an aspiring actress is having a coffee date with a young man she met online. Unfortunately, as they were sharing insights and information online, he left out a few details from his profile: that he is a Marine, a veteran of the Iraqi War-an officer, a gentleman and a cripple. What's more, he stands for everything she is been brought up to hate.
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What is left for those who have given everything they have?
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Genre:
35 min Drama
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Male: 1 Female: 2 Other: -
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Top of PageMeerkat Christmas, A
the loving, charming, witty and somewhat dysfunctional Remus Jacobsen clan gather together every year for a rather lively Christmas celebration. But when daughter erin, 23, brings home her 70 year-old fiancee who insists upon living in his rusted out '62 Bentley, the holidays as they know them will never be the same again. But who is Kristoff Meerkat elwing III? Is he, as is rumored, an eccentric billionaire? a con-artist? Or an angel unaware?
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the Perfect PG Christmas Comedy. 100 minutes.
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1st Published:
JAC Publishing, Jan 2009 978-1605130446
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Genre:
Comedy
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Male: 3 Female: 4 Other: -
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Top of PageNarcissus: the Last Days Of Lord Byron
George Gordon Lord Byron-poet, satirist, raconteur, phenomenal athlete, animal rights activist, duelist, political revolutionary, bisexual incestuous womanizer, loyal loving friend and generous philanthropist-also seems to have become, in his own time, the very invention of Celebrity. Vain, flamboyant, indiscreet and yet surprisingly self-aware, Byron is perhaps the first poet to raise the question: "Can a man live too much of a life at the expense of all else?" NaRCISSUS takes us to Byron's final journey as he spearheads the Greek War for Independence against the Turks and faces the specters of his lavish but scandalous past, including the ghost of his dear friend Percy Bysshe Shelley.
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JAC Publishing, 2012 -
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Genre:
120 min Play/Drama
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Male: 6 Female: 5 Other: -
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Top of PagePavlov's Cats
Synopsis:
When two well-intended but meddlesome apprentice angels set out to prove their respective philosophical points of view, they make the untenable error of trying to "experiment" with the very human beings they've been entrusted to help. . .and manage to mess up everything! When they do Lucifer drops in to lend a helping hand. and when the Devil enters the equation, anything can happen. as such, Pavlov's Cats is as willful, spontaneous and joyously unpredictable as its name implies. Suitable for adults.
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105 min
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1st Published:
JAC Publishing. Oct 2005 978-1933159270
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Genre:
Comedy
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Male: 4 Female: 4 Other: -
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Top of PageScorekeeper - the Uncertain Future Of Unconditional Love
Synopsis:
Tony award Winning Playwright-Producer Christopher Mummer is on a crUSAde to forestall the slaughter of integrity in just about everything he sees. In doing so, he has put himself on course to stop the "terminal dumbing-down of America" by any means necessary. any Means! Suitable for adults. SCOReKeePeR is the first play that dares to take political correctness, the dumbing-down of America and our obsessions with instant gratification and turn them all upside down!
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Cutting edge comedy for A playhouse Ahead-of-the-curve. 105 minutes.
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JAC Publishing, Oct 2007 978-1605130019
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Genre:
Comedy
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Male: 4 Female: 3 Other: -
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Top of PageTrial Of the One-eyed Man, The
Synopsis:
In a world between worlds - the universe of ideas - a renegade scientist stands accused. His crime? Going against the grain of conventional science and mathematical analysis by "computer." In doing so, our protagonist, Jonathan X, has committed the fatal error of insisting that his field of "thermography" holds the key to the invisible universe-a world you can see through "second sight" technology. Now, facing a spate of false charges that includes setting a "killer" forest fire, he is on trial for his life.
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New Release. 2010. 125 Minutes.
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Play/Drama
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Male: 5 Female: 4 Other: 1
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Top of PageYear Of the Tiger
Synopsis:
It is New Year's eve, 1999. Three men-close friends for forty years-have used this occasion for a reunion, only to find that time, individual philosophies, and personality clashes have left them with little in common. a black tie dinner for six set near midnight of the New Millennium will send these aging tigers, their wives and young lovers on a new path: toward sunrise and a whole new perspective on life. . .or not! Suitable for adults.
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Winner Coronet Monday Night Play Series. 125 minutes.
1st Produced:
Coronet Playhouse Apr 2002
Organisations:
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1st Published:
JAC Publishing, aug 2005 978-1933159188
Music:
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Genre:
Drama/Comedy
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Male: 3 Female: 3 Other: -
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