Alan Bowne (1945–1989) was an American playwright and author. He was a member of the

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. 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

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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

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and

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Review of a 2008 production of ''Beirut''
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