The Road to Mecca
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Opened Jan 17, 2012
Closes Mar 4, 2012
Opened Jan 17, 2012
Closes Mar 4, 2012
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Running Time:
2hr. 25min.
(includes 1 intermission)
2hr. 25min.
(includes 1 intermission)
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Set in the region of South Africa known as the Karoo, Athol Fugard's The Road to Mecca tells the story of an elderly woman who has spent the years since her husband's death transforming her home into an intricate and dazzling work of art. The reclusive Miss Helen (Rosemary Harris) has become depressed and appears increasingly unable to care for herself. Pastor Marius Byleveld, who embodies the village's conservative values, is determined to get Miss Helen into an old-age home. Her friend Elsa (Carla Gugino), a young teacher from Cape Town who is deeply suspicious of the patriarchal traditions Byleveld represents, is just as determined that Miss Helen remain free.
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The Road to Mecca
Rosemary Harris is a delight. An old woman blossoms in front of us to reveal a rugged, independent and thoughtful soul who has survived in a backwater place that can never understand or accept her as she is.
Reviewed by stlb2009
on Saturday, Feb 18th, 2012
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Gordon Edelstein's new production of Athol Fugard's
The Road to Mecca, now at the Roundabout Theatre Company's American Airlines Theatre, fails to pick up steam until the second act. But even the most patience-tested audience member should hunker down and stay until the end. Fugard has too much of vital importance to say about human interaction for substance-hungry patrons to miss any of the show's two-and-a-half-hours.
The play, set in 1974, focuses on elderly artist Miss Helen (Rosemary Harris), who lives 800 miles north of Capetown, South Africa and is isolated from her isolated New Bethesda village and from the predominantly Afrikaner villagers among whom she's lived for her nearly 70[...]