Three white women. A black man. An unexpected package that holds a blessing, a curse, or the ghost of something in between.
The Road to Lethe is a theatrical retelling of “The Judgement of Paris,” also known as “The Golden Apple,” one of the most infamous stories of Greek mythology in which petty rivalry between three goddesses—Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite—leads to an unprecedented path of human destruction. In this full-length dramatic interpretation of the story, a black handyman is hired by three aging white women after they receive a mysterious parcel from Amazon, a package to which they all lay claim. The play explores issues of systemic racism and white saviorism through a slightly distorted funhouse mirror of Greek mythology.
