Benchmark Theatre is a local, professional theatre company launched in 2017. Their next production is the world premiere of The Road to Lethe. The play opens Friday, April 26, 2024, and runs through May 18 at The Bench at 40West. General admission is $30 ($25 for students, seniors and military), but on Thursdays tickets are $18.
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 fun house mirror of Greek mythology.
Thursday performances are May 2, 9, & 16 at 8 p.m. Buy tickets here.
1560 Teller St., Lakewood.