The Road to Mecca
By Athol Fugard
Directed by Todd Salovey
September 25-October 17, 2010
in the Lyceum Space
The Story
Tony Award® winner Athol Fugard’s inspiring portrait of an aging artist in an isolated South African village is considered by many to be his finest work. TIME Magazine calls it his “wisest, most balanced and most nearly universal play.”
Miss Helen is a reclusive widow who has created her own “Mecca” by meticulously decorating her home and front yard with a cacophony of candles, mermaids, wisemen, peacocks and pyramids. The neighbors can’t stop wondering “why?” Into Helen’s quiet life enters a young teacher with a secret agenda and a local clergyman with a plan to get Helen to sign away her home and her freedom. The trio clashes in a battle for Helen’s soul and her future.
The stage fills with crystalline light as two women learn to trust themselves and each other in this beautiful story about friendship and freedom.