I wasn’t expecting to be invested in the appeal of collecting the rarest stamps, but the cast of Theresa Rebeck’s Mauritius at Riverside Theatre show the personal side of philately. If errors are what make a stamp valuable, the personal storylines in the play show how human failings, or errors, accrue from grief and greed.
Losing a parent is fraught anytime, but naïve Jackie is bereft after her mother passes.
Jackie visits a stamp shop clutching a stamp album left to her by her mother. She’s unsure whether the album contains stamps of any value but was referred to Phil as a stamp expert by a mutual acquaintance…