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Mauritius is the best play ever written about stamps.
Well, it’s not really about stamps (though philatelists will probably get a giddy jolt from its characters’ learned discourse on all things stampy). Like Terrence McNally’s The Lisbon Traviata, Mauritius uses the quirky passions of a small group of people as a launch pad for an investigation of passion. Or maybe that’s reading too much into it. Maybe Mauritius is really just an innocent little caper about a girl and some grossly overvalued slips of paper. It’s hard to tell, because Mauritius is inscrutable: At once laughable and trenchant, the play is both absurd and sufficiently emotionally authentic to make you feel like a voyeur.
Also, it’s flawed as hell. But it’s still worth seeing.
April 30-May 17, 2009
