<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 31, 255); font-family: 'Marker Felt'; font-size: 48px; ">REMINDER! This weekend only.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Marker Felt" size="7" color="#001fff" style="font: 48.0px Marker Felt; color: #001fff">Theater Voices</font><font face="Marker Felt" size="6" color="#001fff" style="font: 27.0px Marker Felt; color: #001fff"> will present a staged reading of THE</font><font face="Marker Felt" size="7" color="#0019ff" style="font: 32.0px Marker Felt; color: #0019ff"> ROAD TO MECCA by Athol Fugard, </font><font face="Marker Felt" size="6" color="#0019ff" style="font: 27.0px Marker Felt; color: #0019ff"> directed by Eileen Schuyler. </font><font face="Arial" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Arial"> </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 21px; "><font face="Arial" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Arial"> </font><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 14.0px 0.0px; line-height: 21.0px"><font face="Arial" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Arial"> </font><font face="Arial Rounded MT Bold" size="5" style="font: 18.0px Arial Rounded MT Bold"> Performances of THE ROAD TO MECCA, a penetrating study of the role of the artist in any society, will be given at Steamer No. 10 Theatre, 500 Western Avenue in Albany, on Friday, April 3 at 8:00 PM; Saturday, April 4 at 3:00PM and 8:00 PM; and Sunday, April 5 at 3:00 PM. Admission is free.</font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 21px; "><font face="Arial Rounded MT Bold" size="5" style="font: 18.0px Arial Rounded MT Bold"> </font><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 14.0px 0.0px; line-height: 21.0px"><font face="Arial Rounded MT Bold" size="5" style="font: 18.0px Arial Rounded MT Bold"> In this elegant drama, set in South Africa, an elderly Boer woman faces repression by a narrow-minded minister who despises the eccentric collection of sculptures she has created, and which she refers to as her own “Mecca.” The resulting conflict raises questions not only about the poignancy of age, but also about the role of the artist, in particular how creativity is inextricably tied to moral and political liberty. Artists, Fugard suggests, are frightening to those who would suppress freedom because to be an artist is to embody the very nature of freedom.</font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 0px; text-indent: 48px; line-height: 21px; "><font face="Arial Rounded MT Bold" size="5" style="font: 18.0px Arial Rounded MT Bold"> </font><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 14.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 48.0px; line-height: 21.0px"><font face="Arial Rounded MT Bold" size="5" style="font: 18.0px Arial Rounded MT Bold">Athol Fugard of South Africa is one of the world’s most acclaimed playwrights, who has written many powerful dramas about the tragedy of apartheid in his native country. His works include such masterpieces as Master Harold … and the Boys and Blood Knot.</font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial Rounded MT Bold" size="5" style="font: 18.0px Arial Rounded MT Bold">More information at <a href="http://www.theatervoices.org/"><font color="#0010f3" style="color: #0010f3">http://www.theatervoices.org/</font></a></font></div>
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