“I’ve been to the mountaintop… And I’ve seen the promised land. I may not get there with you.” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke those tragically prescient words in Memphis on April 3, 1968 in support of the city’s striking sanitation workers—the day before he was assassinated on the balcony of his room at the Lorraine Motel.
Katori Jackson’s play imagines an encounter in the motel room the night before his death, in which the civil rights leader shares his hopes and dreams with a sassy chambermaid. The two-character play has been widely praised for Hall’s “warts-and-all” portrayal of King as an ordinary man who did extraordinary things.
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