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Plodding But Still Satisfying 'The Road To Mecca'
msnbc.com 1 month agoNEW YORK (AP) -- This year is playwright Athol Fugard's 80th birthday and the first production in New York to be mounted in the honor of this South African trailblazer is, appropriately enough, about the bravery of artists. The Roundabout Theatre Company's somewhat sleepy but still satisfying production of "The Road to Mecca" opened Tuesday at the American Airlines Theater featuring Carla Gugino, Jim Dale and the luminous Rosemary Harris. "It grows on you," Harris' character says at the beginning of the pla
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Rosemary Harris In A Winding ‘Road To Mecca’
nydailynews.com 4 weeks, 1 day agoTraveling “The Road to Mecca” can be a trying trip. The 1988 play by South African writer Athol Fugard is wordy and circuitous and waves metaphors around like emergency flares. On the plus side, beautiful stretches and a generous humanity eventually emerge in the three-hander, now making its Broadway premiere in a Roundabout Theatre Company revival.
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