The Mountaintop
From: Thursday, 16th July 2009
To: Saturday, 5 September 2009
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Synopsis
Martin Luther King retires to room 306 in the Lorraine Motel the night before his assassination. He has just delivered a speech to a Memphis church congregation during the sanitation workers' strike. When a mysterious young maid from the motel visits him, King is forced to confront his past and the future of his people.
Our Review:
21 July 2009
I went along to the Trafalgar Studios expecting to find this already acclaimed two-hander from Theatre 503 housed in the smaller space. But James Dacre’s outstandingly well acted production has no trouble at all filling the main theatre and ends up far from “intimate.”
It takes time. American playwright Katori Hall places us in the Memphis motel room where Martin Luther King spent his last night on earth, working on a speech and fretting about his cigarettes; an aide has gone off to buy some Pall Malls and he calls up a cup of coffee on room service.
When the maid arrives, you wonder how the civil rights hero will keep her there for the play’s duration without some tacky one-on-one development. but the ninety minutes unfolds with a mixture of conversational gambits and magic realism that soon has you in an emotional head lock.
David Harewood doesn’t look much like King, but he exudes a tremulous authority and charismatic per...
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Blair Kesseler - 2 September 2009:
Simply the best new play I've seen in years. 90 minutes flew by as two actors on top of their form mesmerised the audience, making us laugh, whilst never forgetting tha legacy that was to be Martin Luther King Jr. The theatrical twist at the heart of the play works admirably and the author is uses it to develop the exposition of King's life's work. Lorraine Burroughs is amazing easily holding her own with the better known David Harewood and, when she demonstrates to King how he SHOULD put over his message, she almost steals the show. The run ends soon - but I do hope that more people get the chance to see what is a true theatrical experience....
Cast
David Harewood (Martin Luther King)
David Harewood
Lorraine Burroughs
Creative
Katori Hall (Author)
Sonia Friedman Productions (Producer)
Jean Doumanian (Producer)
Tali Pelman (for Ambassador Theatre Group) (Producer)
Bob Bartner (Producer)
Marla Rubin Productions Ltd (Producer)
James Dacre (Director)
Libby Watson (Design)
Emma Chapman (Lighting)
Richard Hammarton (Sound)
Dick Straker (video - for Mesmer Voice and Dialect Charmian Hoare) (Design)
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