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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Tales Of The Lost Formicans

Tales Of The Lost Formicans

Congdon, Constance

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ISBN10: 088145091X
ISBN13: 9780881450910
Publisher: Broadway Play Publishing
Published: Jun 1 1990
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.18 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
This witty and passionate play explores the story of a man with Alzheimer's and at the same time turns into a travel guide to Middle America conducted by aliens from outer space. The play has a wonderful comic sensibility, but this is a chillingly painful play addressing postmodern society's collective nervous breakdown. If not the best new play of recent years, surely this is the most imaginative. Constance Congdon's brilliant Off-Broadway script wryly deflects the story of a man with Alzheimer's disease into a travel guide to Middle America conducted by aliens. -William Henry III, Time Constance Congdon's TALES OF THE LOST FORMICANS is a treat in so many ways - starting with its deliciously wry title ... you shouldn't miss it: Congdon is a new voice, and her innumerable small triumphs are achieved with a freshness of spirit, with a humor and charm so distinctively individual, that one just wants to hear more and more from her ... Congdon's aliens are a fluidly shifting metaphor for her own complex relation to the subject of her drama, a lower-middle suburban family coping with three generations' worth of stress simultaneously ... -Michael Feingold, Village Voice ... a savagely uncompromising play of searching insights, biting wit and all too recognizable home truths ... There are laughs, wit and humor, but this is a chillingly painful play. Congdon is a terrific playwright with sure command of language and her subject ... -Polly Warfield, Drama-Logue Congdon's writing creates dialogue that crackles with wit, imagination and incisive passion ... -A J Esta, Drama-Logue

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