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ALAN BOWNE (1945 - 1989) |
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Nationality: USA Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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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
Plays by Alan Bowne
Able-Bodied Seaman, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1983 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #4176 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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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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Beirut | ||
| 1st Produced: | Nat Horne Theatre, NYC | 23 Mar 1987 | ||||
Company: | Manhattan Class Company, NY | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Plays by Alan Bowne, Broadway Play Publishing Inc, NY, 1997 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0881451429 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #66769 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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| 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. . .. | |||||
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Forty-Deuce | ||
| 1st Produced: | Perry Theatre | 11 Oct 1981 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | New York: Sea Horse Press 1983 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #91060 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
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 | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Little Monsters | ||
| 1st Produced: | Seraphim Theatre Company | 1995 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Plays by Alan Bowne, Broadway Play Publishing Inc, NY, 1997 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0881451429 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #120351 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| the plot concerns a search for a lost shoebox full of cocaine | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Sharon and Billy | ||
| 1st Produced: | Magic Theatre, San Francisco | 1986 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Plays by Alan Bowne, Broadway Play Publishing Inc, NY, 1997 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0881451429 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #91061 | |||
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Genre: | One act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| A family have to face the fact that the fifteen year old daughter is pregnant by her brother | |||||
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Snake In The Vein | ||
| 1st Produced: | Limbo Theatre, New York | 1985 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Theatre Communications Group 1993 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #120350 | |||
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Genre: | One act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | unpublished ms owned by Jimmy Bohr. Nd. | |||||
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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