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Alan Browne

ALAN BROWNE

  (? - deceased)
Nationality:    USA
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Alan Bowne was an American playwright and author. His plays include BEIRUT, FORTY-DEUCE, SHARON AND BILLY, and THE BEANY AND CECIL SHOW, many of which are available from Broadway Play Publishing Inc. He was a member of New Dramatists. He also wrote one novel, Wally Wonderstruck. He died of complications related to AIDS at the age of forty-four.

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below is a list of Alan Browne's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Beirut         Forty-Deuce         Sharon and Billy         Spook

Beirut

Synopsis:
Set in an apocalyptic future where a young man named Torch has been quarantined to a dark, squalid room on the Lower East Side of New York City, after testing positive for a nameless, sexually transmitted disease. In his grimy cell which the locals refer to as Beirut, Torch passes the time alone, forbidden from contact with the moral population of the outside world. His uninfected girlfriend, Blue, makes the dangerous journey across the quarantine line to be with him. Torch tries to keep her at room's length and for the next hour, they argue lovingly, jokingly, fearfully, bravely, and desperately about sex and death. All the while, Torch pleads with Blue to leave before his resistance fails and he infects her. She chooses the possibility of infection: I can live without sex and feel dead or risk death and feel alive.

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1st Produced:
Bridge Lane, London     1990

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1st Published:
http://www.broadwayplaypub.com/the-plays/plays-by-alan-bowne/   -

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Genre:
Play/Drama. - - AIDS, full length

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Forty-Deuce

Synopsis:
FORTY-DEUCE explores the homosexual prostitution scene around 42nd Street in the 1980s, where a toxic mix of drugs, sex, and money make survival a brutal struggle.

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Genre:
Play/Drama. - - Gay, full length

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Sharon and Billy

Synopsis:
Sharon and Billy, sister and brother, are typical adolescents growing up in a tract home in 1950's Southern California. But when fifteen-year-old Sharon finds herself pregnant, their adolescence comes to an abrupt end.

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Genre:
1950s, Family

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Spook

Synopsis:
Unmarried cousins Eleanor and Lolly have inherited from their recently deceased aunt a historical house on the windswept Massachusetts coast. Only thing is, the place is haunted by the handsome young ghost of a swashbuckling 19-century smuggler who was hanged for his crimes. The local minister, Mr Butts, finds it all unbearably romantic. Eleanor, a worldly woman, is skeptical of the ghost's existence, but spinsterish Lolly claims he visits her at night, and they've fallen in love. Has Lolly, Eleanor wonders, lost her mind? Moreover, how could the ghost possibly prefer Lolly to her? As the ghost continues his visitations, his reasons for the haunting are gradually revealed, and not only Lolly but even Eleanor and Mr Butts begin to fall under his spell, the surprising consequences of which may just land all three of them in jail in this delightful and otherworldly romantic comedy.

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Genre:
romantic comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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