Cocaine & Underpants
by Alan Bowne

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…