While Anna prepares for her wedding, 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 Royal National Theatre, London, in October 2002.
"An acute and funny writer, Stephenson carves out a welcome territory that is distinctive, contemporary, and theatrical."—Independent