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Mappa Mundi

Full-Length Play, Drama  /  2w, 4m

Shelagh Stephenson

Mappa Mundi
by Shelagh Stephenson

While Anna prepares for her wedding to a black lawyer, her father Jack, a passionate map collector, is forced to confront the limits of his life. Although research into his ancestry proves the family is related to an eighteenth-century cartographer a…

Mappa Mundi

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    2w, 4m

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While Anna prepares for her wedding to a black lawyer, her father Jack, a passionate map collector, is forced to confront the limits of his life. Although research into his ancestry proves the family is related to an eighteenth-century cartographer and plantation owner, Anna is interested by the discovery that they may also be descended from a slave. Mappa Mundi premiered at the National Theatre, London, in October 2002.
M4 (30s Black, 45, 50s, elderly)
F2 (41, 60s West Indian)
Dancers (1 Black, 1 Asian)
  • Time Period Contemporary
  • Setting A garden

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