Alan Bowne (1945â€"1989) was an American playwright and author. He was
a member of the New Dramatists.He wrote a number of plays including
Beirut, Forty-Deuce, Sharon and Billy, and The Beany and Cecil Show,
many of which are available from Broadway Play Publishing Inc. He also
wrote one novel Wally Wonderstruck. He died of complications related
to AIDS at the age of 44.Perhaps his most famous and enduring work,
"Beirut" is a one-act play that tells the allegorical story of a
heterosexual couple dealing with a mysterious disease that ravages
dystopian New York. This fictional disease presumably represented the
real HIV/AIDS epidemic of the 1980s. Bowne's play Beirut was adapted
to the 1993 TV movie Daybreak starring Cuba Gooding Jr and Moira
Kelly.
a member of the New Dramatists.He wrote a number of plays including
Beirut, Forty-Deuce, Sharon and Billy, and The Beany and Cecil Show,
many of which are available from Broadway Play Publishing Inc. He also
wrote one novel Wally Wonderstruck. He died of complications related
to AIDS at the age of 44.Perhaps his most famous and enduring work,
"Beirut" is a one-act play that tells the allegorical story of a
heterosexual couple dealing with a mysterious disease that ravages
dystopian New York. This fictional disease presumably represented the
real HIV/AIDS epidemic of the 1980s. Bowne's play Beirut was adapted
to the 1993 TV movie Daybreak starring Cuba Gooding Jr and Moira
Kelly.
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