Tales of the Lost Formicans and other plays

Performing rights not held by Nick Hern Books

Paperback, 306 pages ISBN: 9781559360845Publication Date:
1 Aug 1995
Size: 215mm x 136mm
First Staged:
River Arts Repertory, 1988

Tales of the Lost Formicans and other plays

By Constance Congdon

Paperback

Four plays from one of America's finest playwrights.

Immensely inventive and challenging, Constance Congdon's plays are endowed with compassion, keen insight and an unfailing comic sensibility. This edition contains an introduction by Tony Kushner.

Throughout the plays in her first collection, Congdon demonstrates a range rare in writers in any age, from a sombre meditation on life in the postnuclear age (No Mercy, 3f 6m) to madcap social satire (Losing Father's Body, 7f 6m) from an epic historical exploration of love and sexual identity (Casanova, 7f 6m doubling) to her most popular play to date (Tale of the Lost Formicans, 3f 4m).

Press Quotes

'A travel guide to Middle America conducted by aliens from outer space'

Time Magazine on 'Tale of the Lost Formicans'

Performing rights not held by Nick Hern Books

Paperback,306 pages ISBN: 9781559360845Publication Date:
1 Aug 1995
Size: 215mm x 136mm
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