Cocaine is a play by Pendleton King. The following one-act play is reprinted from The Provincetown Plays. Ed. George Cram Cook & Frank Shay. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1921. It is believed to be in the public domain and may therefore be performed without royalties. But it's Pendleton King's Cocaine that's the intriguing dark horse, the kind of lesser-known, infrequently-staged classic that Savage Rose is known for producing. King was a playwright of great promise whose career was interrupted by the first World War. Savage Rose producing artistic director J. Barrett Cooper first discovered Cocaine in a used book store anthology. The dialogue is so alive and sounds like anything that would be written today, says Cooper. But what we've been able to find in it is a real grittiness. It'