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Tales of the Lost Formicans and Other Plays

✍ Scribed by Constance Congdon

Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Year: 2015
Tongue: English
Weight: 150 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN: 1559368233

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✦ Synopsis

“One of the playwrights our country, and our language, has produced." – Tony Kushner
“Quirky, disturbing, and inexplicably beautiful theatrical poetry." – Cary M. Mazer, Philadelphia City Paper
“Congdon writes like a woman possessed." – Nels Nelson, New York Daily News
An immensely inventive and challenging writer, Constance Congdon is one of America's finest playwrights, endowed with great compassion, keen insight and an unfailing comic sensibility. Throughout the plays in her first collection, she demonstrates a range rare in writers in any age, from a somber meditation on life in the postnuclear age (No Mercy) to madcap social satire (Losing Father's Body), from an epic historical exploration of love and sexual identity (Casanova) to her most popular play to date (Tales of the Lost Formicans), acclaimed by William A. Henry III of Time magazine as “A travel guide to Middle America...

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