{"product_id":"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.\u003cp\u003e\"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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"... 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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Congdon's writing creates dialogue that crackles with wit, imagination and incisive passion ...\" -A J Esta, Drama-Logue\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Broadway Play Publishing, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47009256046832,"sku":"9780881450910","price":10.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780881450910_p0.jpg?v=1763844794","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780881450910","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}