Mauritius by Theresa Rebeck
is a play whose opening was in 2007, on October the 4th at Biltmore
Theatre. The last representation was on November 25, 2007.
This play represented the
author’s debut on Broadway. The actors playing in Mauritius by Theresa
Rebeck are: Alison Pill as Jackie, Katie Finneran as Mary, Dylan Baker
as Philip, F. Murray Abraham as Sterling and bobby Cannavale as Dennis,
the one who had a nomination for the best performance by a featured
actor in a play at the Tony Awards, for the Broadway representation.
The director of the play is
Marie Maginity. At one simple look, the play is about a stamp collection
thought to worth a lot of money.
The stamp collection is inherited by two sisters,
after their mother’s death. They have to take a
decision regarding this precious collection of
stamps and some guys that are willing to help them
initiate a ride that is funny, scary from time to
time and exciting.
The characters are trying to gain the eventual
rewards and you can never say who is leading the
ride. Mauritius by Theresa Rebeck can be described
as disturbing, intriguing, taut, clever and
entertaining, made of lies, vendetta, intrigues,
twists without expectations, complexity of the
family, information as well as disinformation. The
two sisters are the main characters, as well as the
philatelists willing to have the rare stamps.
Mauritius by Theresa Rebeck is a thriller, comedy
and a drama in the same time and the title is
related to the Indian Ocean’s island popular for the
world’s two rarest stamps:
Twopence
Blue and Office Post Penny Orange. The play wants to
show that the family, love and money can be the
connection between people that behave badly and that
the stamp collection can be a fatal hobby. At its
opening on Broadway, in 2007, Mauritius by Theresa
Rebeck has a huge success and the Westport Community
Theatre was delighted to present the play in
Fairfield County.
The
suspense, action, comedy, thriller and dialogue of
the play conquered the public. Theresa Rebeck was
nominee to Drama category at the Pulitzer Prize and
her plays are produced in the United States of
America and all over the world. Beside Mauritius, by
Theresa Rebeck you can enjoy: Loose Knit, The Scene,
The Family of Mann and Spike Heels and The Water’s
Edge (at Second Stage), Our House, The Butterfly
Collection and Bad Dates (at Playwrights Horizons).
Omnium Gatherum, which she co-written, was played at
Humana Festival while View of the Dome was played at
New York Theatre Workshop. In 2008, was the premiere
of The Understudy. Rebeck is from Cincinnati but she
lives in Brooklyn with the two children and her
husband. She has PhDiIn Victorian Melodrama and an
MFA in Playwriting from the Brandeis University.
She
also a Dramatists Guild board’s member, she taught at the Columbia University
and at the Brandeis University. She is also Roundabout Theatre Company’s
associate artist and Harvard Review’s contributing editor.
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