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The Road to Mecca

By: Athol Fugard
Narrated by: Julie Harris, Amy Irving, Harris Yulin
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When her husband dies, aging Miss Helen begins to fill her home in the remote South African bush with strange sculptures made from beer cans and old headlights. A local clergyman and a young woman visitor try to decide whether Miss Helen's peculiar art is an outpouring of creativity or an outbreak of madness.

An incandescent drama by South Africa's most celebrated playwright.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Julie Harris, Amy Irving, and Harris Yulin.

©1993 Athol Fugard (P)2015 L.A Theatre Works African Drama & Plays European World Literature Africa

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Deep, meaningful and moving work of art, but marred slightly by a week ending, which felt a bit like a soap opera.

The performance was good, but the accents were slightly unsatisfactory.

But for the above detractions, I loved it, and would highly recommend it.

Deep, meaningful work of art, marred slightly...

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If we put to one side Julie Harris' bizarre Scottish accent, the performances are excellent- and beautifully directed.The play itself peaks with a wonderful row between a conservative pastor and a city-based radical. Unfortunately the third character of the piece-- a whiney , spineless old biddy, is not an adequate object for their respective philosophies of life. The play collapses in the last half hour with a silly mystical stretch, some old-fashioned melodrama and reliance on an off-stage incident which has been flogged to death as a metaophor throughout the two hours. Some classy dialogue, though.

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