{"product_id":"9780881457469","title":"Cocaine \u0026 Underpants","description":"\u003cp\u003efrom Interview, August 1987 by Kevin Sessums:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlaywright and screenwriter Alan Bowne, whose work concerns the scraggly underbelly of life itself, has the friendly tenacity of one of those tight-tailed mutts…\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBowne didn’t start writing until he was 35. Before that? 'I bummed around. Drug dealer. Movie extra. Junkie…'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e…he begins to growl away at a number of subjects. …Love:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Living without love is death itself. If you have love in your life—the true thing—then you’ve got everything.'\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd that is what Alan Bowne's great plays—BEIRUT, SHARON AND BILLY—are about. COCAINE \u0026amp; 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…\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Broadway Play Publishing Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50086789513456,"sku":"9780881457469","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780881457469","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}