j 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 shepherd--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 o/! its underbelly.
Playwright and screenwriter Alan Bowne， whose work concerns the
straggly underbelly ~( life itself， has the friendly tenacity of one of those
tight-tailed mutts. \"People don t like what I write: Screw era，\" he insists
a bone of contention clenched fiercely between his teeth. \"That just means
they don t like my truth. I don t write Long Island theater. I don t write for
e o!d guard who ve been brain dama ed ，o-
Ith~nte comedies full o ，-~，)~r~.， _ ， g on the plays of Eugene \"lv，~ill
f ui people and I bounce era off ablacO w
t s easy to understand， however， all.\"
how some might wish to avert their eyes
from the track marks of humor in Bowne s work. FORTY DEUCE， his first
play and later a Paul Morrissey film， concerns a group of male hustlers in a
room off Times Square who try to sell a fourteen-year-old to a rich
businessman--all the while concealing the fact that the youngster， who Ii~o~
naked on the soiled bed throu~ho， t ~. ~l~， !~ ~ from an overdose oi
~rU~. AM6[/ler play， SHARON AND BILLY， is about a brother and sister s
guerrilla warfare against their parents in 1950s blue-collar Los Angeles.
His next， A SNAKE IN THE VEIN， is scheduled for this fall at Manhattan
Class Company and concerns a sage old heroin addict and his young
recruit. Bowne s second Morrissey film， Mixed Blood， was about a decadent
den mother and her young troop of dope-peddling thieves in New York s
Alphabet City， sort of a female Oliver Twisted. Yet another Morrissey
movie， Throwback， is currently in production. Starring Sasha Mitchell，
a former Calvin Klein jeans model， it takes us on a tour of the new yuppie
mafia and the boxing world in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn. But it
is Bowne s latest play， BEIRUT， that is the most controversial of his career.
Set in the near future， its subject matter is a plague much like AIDS that
has caused quarantining and tattooing of its victims. The two heterosexual
characters are barely clothed
the pus throughout its 59-minute running time， and
of sexuality， enticing as well as toxic， oozes from the work s exposed
pores. BEIRUT has caused critics to rail. Clive Barnes bellowed against it，
Tile Village Voice labeled it \" ，，
dangerous.
\"The Village Voice? What s that?\" Bowne bellows back. \"It s the left-wing
National Enquirer. I don t read it. And， to tell you the truth， I don t care what
a lisping， rheumy old fart who not only passes out in the middle of plays
but also works for a piece of toilet tissue like the New York Post thinks about
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