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Worcester State College Press
Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Students perform in Tales of the Lost Formicans
(Worcester – October 29, 2004) Anne Eggleston and Sally Earl of Worcester will perform in the theatrical production of Tales of the Lost Formicans by Constance Congdon, November 4-7, 2004 in the Administration Theatre at Worcester State College. Worcester State College professor Anne Marie Shea, Ph.D. directs the play. Tales of the Lost Formicans, one of Congdon’s best known plays, probes life in suburbia from the prospective of a few curious aliens. Eggleston will play Cathy, a woman in her 30’s who is recently divorced and a mother of a teenage son. Earl plays Evelyn McKissick, Cathy’s mother and caregiver to husband Jim who is struggling with Alzheimer’s disease. Gregg Mason of Billerica will play Cathy’s son, Eric. Other cast members include Scott Englund of Worcester as McKissick’s neighbor, Jerry, and Erica Wilbon of New York City as Judy, Cathy’s friend and high school chum. Emily Kuriger of Fitchburg, MA serves as a voice over and Robert Latino of Leicester, MA as a truck driver and alien. Constance Congdon wrote her first play, Gilgamesh, in 1976. Since that time her plays have been produced in Moscow, Helsinki, Brixton, Manchester, London, Tokyo and other countries as well as all over the United States. Tales of the Lost Formicans has had over eighty productions world-wide, including in New York by the Women’s Project. Time critic William Henry III said, “If not the best new play in 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.” This production runs November 4-7, 2004 with performances at 8 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. on Sunday in the Administration Building Theatre. The cost is $5.00 a ticket for students and $10.00 a ticket for the general public. Tickets are available at the door. Reservations may be made by calling (508) 949-8843.
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