Although theater history is unlikely to remember Alan Bowne’s The Able-Bodied Seaman, its author, in his all-too-short life, was able to carve a tiny place for himself there. Though Beiruit, A Snake in the Vein, Sharon and Billy, and Forty Deuce will stand as Bowne’s legacy, at least Seaman, his earliest drama, has some of the qualities that made him so briefly, and perhaps immortally, vital.
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