{"product_id":"tales-of-the-lost-formicans-9780881450910","title":"Tales Of The Lost Formicans","description":"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\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Broadway Play Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50492212085010,"sku":"9780881450910","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a46617d8-38d1-477d-bbec-5cc4aff01932.jpg?v=1730577141","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/tales-of-the-lost-formicans-9780881450910","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}