Three Screenplays: & A One Act

by Alexander Lowell

Three Screenplays & A One Act. Killing Romance is an anti-romantic comedy about a divorced couple who reluctantly join forces and conspire to get rid of their son’s destructive girlfriend. They try everything they can think of to force the teen lovers apart, but finally, in the tradition of Throw Mama From the Train, they decide their only option is to eliminate her—permanently. Eleftheria tells the story of a survivor of Turkey’s brutal 1974 invasion of Cyprus who searches for three decades to find her son, Spyros, missing since the first days of the attack. After 30 years of fruitless search, Eleftheria finally embarks on a traumatic journey into the occupied zone where she finds an unexpected sense of closure. Tell It Like It Is is a largely autobiographical story of growing up in the 1950s and 60s in America and the author’s involvement in civil rights activities, the Vietnam anti-war movement and cyber actions against corporate America. Bride of Christ, Bride of ISIS is a one-act play that places a disgraced Catholic priest at the center of child-bride trafficking for ISIS.

418 pages, Paperback

Published August 31, 2017

About the author

Alexander Lowell is the pen name of an American writer who has lived and worked in Cyprus since 2005. He began writing reviews and feature articles on the arts for the Chicago Reader newspaper in the mid-1970s and went on to write for various publications in San Francisco, Boston and Virginia. In 1978, he was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in Criticism. He has also worked as a construction laborer, factory worker, VW mechanic, bartender, cook, proofreader, paralegal, winery worker and English teacher (in the U.S., Cyprus, Kuwait and Mexico).
For two years he wrote restaurant reviews and a regular Sunday column (Diary) for the Cyprus Mail and subsequently published more than 100 wine and food articles for such venues as Cyprus Gourmet, the Financial Mirror, Flavor Magazine, Virginia Wine Gazette, BK Wine Magazine (Sweden/France) and for the many in-house magazines of hotels, restaurant chains and travel companies, including Cyprus Airlines and Hermes Airports.
In the U.S., Cyprus and the U.K., under various pen names, he has published poetry and short stories, two mystery novels (Roll Away the Stone and Blind Faith) featuring the Cypriot amateur sleuth, Stavros Odysseos, as well as Stowell’s Guide to the Wines & Wineries of Cyprus (now in its 2nd edition). Most recently he has published short stories and poetry in The Opiate (NY).