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Mauritius
Mauritius
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Author: Theresa Rebeck Publisher: Samuel French (cover may change) Format: Softcover # of Pages: 80 Pub. Date: 2009 Edition: Acting ISBN-10: 0573660190 ISBN-13: 9780573660191 Cast Size: 2 female, 3 male
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About
the Play:
Mauritius
has become a favourite of acting teachers for Female Monologues, Male
Monologues, Female/Female Scenes, Female/Male Scenes, and Male/Male
Scenes.
Mauritius
is a full-length dramatic comedy by Theresa Rebeck. Following
their mother's death, two half-sisters discover a book of rare stamps
that may include the crown jewel for collectors. One sister tries to
collect on the windfall, while the other resists for sentimental
reasons. In this gripping tale, a seemingly simple sale becomes
dangerous when three seedy, high-stakes collectors enter the sisters'
world, willing to do anything to claim the rare find as their own.
Who is friend and who is foe?
Mauritius
(referring to "Blue Mauritius", one of the world's rarest
stamps) is a family drama intertwined with con-artistry and steeped
in themes of trust and materialism. It focuses on estranged
half-sisters Jackie and Mary who discover a book of rare, and
potentially very valuable, stamps upon their mother's death. While
attempting to get the collection appraised Jackie draws the attention
of Dennis, a tattooed ruffian of mysterious background who informs
Jackie of the collection's enormous worth and offers to connect her
to a buyer who will pay top-dollar for her stamps. What follows is a
tangled web of conspiring, conniving, and double-crossing as the
audience is introduced to Sterling, a wealthy businessman with
rageful and manic tendencies who desperately wants Jackie's
collection; Phillip, the arrogant and condescending philatelist whose
loyalties and motivations seem questionable; and the hostility
between Jackie and Mary, the seeds of which are run far deeper than
some stamp collection.
Mauritius
premiered in 2007 on Broadway at the Biltmore Theatre in New York
City. The
play has become a favourite scene study vehicle in acting classes and
workshops and has been performed in regional, fringe festival,
college, and community theatre productions.
Cast:
2 female, 3 male
What
people say:
"Unsurprisingly
for a writer with extensive experience in TV police procedurals like
'NYPD Blue' and 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent,' one of Rebeck's
strengths is her skill at stitching tension into every exchange. The
five characters in Mauritius pair up and face
off in shifting configurations, the emotionally fraught edges of
their twisty encounters made all the more intriguing by the fact that
items as apparently innocuous as postage stamps fuel the friction."
— Variety
"One
wouldn't think that the subject of rare stamps would make for
gripping, entertaining theater, but Theresa Rebeck's
Mauritius, being given its Broadway premiere by
the Manhattan Theatre Club, proves otherwise...The sort of well-made,
engrossing and unpretentious play rarely encountered on Broadway
these days, Mauritius is a welcome introduction
to the fall season." — The Hollywood Reporter
About
the Playwright:
Theresa Rebeck is an American playwright, director, television
writer, and novelist. She is the most Broadway-produced female
playwright of our time. Her plays include Bad Dates, Omnium
Gatherum (co-written, Pulitzer finalist), Spike Heels, and
Mauritius, which won Boston's prestigious IRNE and Elliot
Norton Awards. Her work in television includes NYPD Blue for which
she has won the Peabody, the Writer's Guild, and the Mystery Writers
of America's Edgar awards.
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