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The Mountaintop

4/5 ( ratings)

Winner of the Olivier Award and set to open on Broadway in September 2011, "The Mountaintop "is set at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis in 1968, on the night before Martin Luther King is assassinated and on the day he delivered a speech in which he foretold his own fate, "I may not get there with you, but I want you to know that tonight, we as a people will get to the Promised Land."

Playwright Katori Hall takes this historic date with destiny and weaves a powerful surrealistic fantasy about a conversation between King and a mysterious hotel maid who brings him a cup of coffee and prompts him to confront his life, his past, his legacy and the plight and future of African-Americans. Hall's insight, light touch and lively mood depicts King as a real man with very human foibles who was nonetheless capable of inspiring millions to hope and move toward a momentous societal shift for equality and justice.

Language: English

Pages: 44

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service

Release: August 27, 2013

ISBN: 0822226030

ISBN 13: 9780822226031

The Mountaintop

4/5 ( ratings)

Winner of the Olivier Award and set to open on Broadway in September 2011, "The Mountaintop "is set at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis in 1968, on the night before Martin Luther King is assassinated and on the day he delivered a speech in which he foretold his own fate, "I may not get there with you, but I want you to know that tonight, we as a people will get to the Promised Land."

Playwright Katori Hall takes this historic date with destiny and weaves a powerful surrealistic fantasy about a conversation between King and a mysterious hotel maid who brings him a cup of coffee and prompts him to confront his life, his past, his legacy and the plight and future of African-Americans. Hall's insight, light touch and lively mood depicts King as a real man with very human foibles who was nonetheless capable of inspiring millions to hope and move toward a momentous societal shift for equality and justice.

Language: English

Pages: 44

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service

Release: August 27, 2013

ISBN: 0822226030

ISBN 13: 9780822226031

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