Description: A South African pastor and a young teacher from Cape Town battle over the fate of an eccentric elderly widow.
Brief description:
Athol Fugard (1932-2025) worked in the theater as a playwright, director and actor for more than fifty years. His plays include Blood Knot, Boesman and Lena, "Master Harold"... and the boys, The Road to Mecca, My Children! My Africa!, Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act and Valley Song.
Review Quotes:
Mecca throbs with a despairing awareness of the South Africa of the 1970s as a broken and corrupting nation, a spiritual prison for those who inhabit it.
--Ben Brantley, New York Times