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Alan Bowne

ALAN BOWNE

  (1945 - 1989)
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. Very little information is available about the life of Alan Bowne. It seems he wanted it that way. Biography in Contemporary Gay American Poets and Playwrights, Ed Emmanuel S Nelson, 0-313-32232-5

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

         Able-Bodied Seaman, The         Beirut         Forty-Deuce         Little Monsters         Sharon And Billy         Snake In the Vein         Spook
Able-Bodied Seaman, The

Synopsis:
Roy is home after a six month stint at sea. He drinks heavily. He has a slanging match with Rita his neighbour and some time lover and with his sixteen year old daughter Fay. Roy does not approve of Fay's boyfriend a would be car thief. Whilst at sea one of Roy's shipmates died. Roy is selling his testimony that it was an accident to the shipping firm's lawyer

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Genre:
Gay/Lesbian, of interest

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Beirut

Beirut
Alan Bowne's stunner about love in the plague years. It's `the near future:' we're in a dump of a room on the Lower east Side, where a young man named Torch has been quarantined after testing positive for a nameless disease that sounds a lot like aIDS. His girlfriend, Blue, who has not been infected, makes the dangerous journey across the quarantine line to be with him. . ..
- Walter Goodman, the New York Times

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1st Produced:
Nat Horne Theatre, NYC     23 Mar 1987

Organisations:
Manhattan Class Company, NY

1st Published:
in Plays by alan Bowne, Broadway Play Publishing Inc, NY, 1997   

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

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Forty-Deuce

Synopsis:
Ricky has brought John Anthony back to his seedy room on eight avenue. Ricky hopes to pimp John who is new to the city - fresh from the farm - to the sadistic Mr Roper. To keep John on side Ricky has injected him with a cocktail of drugs - that prove to be tainted and the young man dies. This causes a problem for the other rent boys who use the room

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1st Produced:
Perry Theatre     11 Oct 1981

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1st Published:
New York: Sea Horse Press 1983   

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

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Little Monsters

Little Monsters
the plot concerns a search for a lost shoebox full of cocaine

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1st Produced:
Seraphim Theatre Company     1995

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1st Published:
in Plays by alan Bowne, Broadway Play Publishing Inc, NY, 1997   

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Genre:
Play/Drama. - - Gay/Lesbian, of interest

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Sharon And Billy

Sharon And Billy
a family have to face the fact that the fifteen year old daughter is pregnant by her brother

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1st Produced:
Magic Theatre, San Francisco     1986

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1st Published:
in Plays by alan Bowne, Broadway Play Publishing Inc, NY, 1997   

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Genre:
One act. - - Gay/Lesbian, of interest

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Snake In the Vein

Synopsis:
In a seedy Manhattan drug rehab clinic two gay men share a room. an older ex-teacher and a young punk rocker. the older man persuades the younger to do a striptease. then he gets him to inject into the one USAble vein he has - his jugular. He promises the younger man if he does that he can have his secret stash of heroin and he will regain his sexual potency

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unpublished ms owned by Jimmy Bohr. Nd.

1st Produced:
Limbo Theatre, New York     1985

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1st Published:
Theatre Communications Group 1993   

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Genre:
One act. - - Gay/Lesbian, of interest

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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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http://www.broadwayplaypub.com/   

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Genre:
romantic comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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