1st Night Photos: Harewood Moves Mountaintop
American writer Katori Hall‘s two-hander The Mountaintop transferred to Trafalgar Studios last night (20 July 2009, previews from 16 July) following its acclaimed premiere at Theatre503 last month, replete with its cast of David Harewood and Lorraine Burroughs (See News, 7 July 2009).
is set on 3 April 1968, the night before Martin Luther King’s assassination, in room 306
of Memphis’ Lorraine Motel to which the civil rights leader had retired
after giving his famous “I have been to the mountaintop” speech to a
massive church congregation. When room service is delivered by a
mysterious young woman, King is forced to confront his past, as well as
his legacy to his people.
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PHOTOS BY DAN WOOLLER FOR WHATSONSTAGE.COM.
For 1st Night Photos, our Whatsonstage.com photographer Dan Wooller was at Trafalgar Studios 1 for the curtain call and at Walkers of Whitehall for the after party, where the company were joined by guests including producers
Sonia Friedman and David Babani and actors Don Warrington, Danny Sapani and Harewood’s Robin Hood co-star Lara Pulver.
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