Cocaine & Underpants

from Interview, August 1987 by Kevin Sessums: "There's a creature known in the South as a feist dog. Little. Scraggly. High-strung. You know where one lives by a backyard full of barks. The thing'll take on a German shepard--shit, the whole German army--if it thinks its territory is being threatened. But it likes kids too. And it likes the feel of a hand on its underbelly. Playwright and screenwriter Alan Bowne, whose work concerns the scraggly underbelly of life itself, has the friendly tenacity of one of those tight-tailed mutts... Bowne didn't start writing until he was 35. Before that? 'I bummed around. Drug dealer. Movie extra. Junkie...' ...he begins to growl away at a number of subjects. ...Love: 'Living without love is death itself. If you have love in your life--the true thing--then you've got everything.'" And that is what Alan Bowne's great plays--BEIRUT, SHARON AND BILLY--are about. COCAINE & UNDERPANTS tells the story of a small-time drug dealer and his girlfriend, who turns tricks to get by. A man visits them to extract retribution for a little mistake they made...

• | Author: Alan Bowne
• | Publisher: Broadway Play Publishing, Incorporated
• | Publication Date: Dec 29, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 38 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Drama
• | ISBN-10: 0881457469
• | ISBN-13: 9780881457469