Story about sensuality fails to come alive onstage
Marguerite Duras' semi-autobiographical novel "L'Amant," or "The Lover," paints in many hues. It is a tactile portrait of the colors of Southern Indochina in 1929; it reminds us that not all colonialists were rich or powerful, complicating people; it ponders love and power; it is a coming-of-age story that may or may not be fantastical. But "L'Amant" has one overpowering theme: sensual recollection. …