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"The Mountaintop" brings MLK Jr. story to Triad Stage
News & Record
October 17, 2013
For 90 minutes straight, six days a week, Cedric Mays becomes the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
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The Mountaintop envisions the last hours of Martin Luther King
Indy Week
September 25, 2013
But when a rescue's taking place in an accounting of a life, it's usually important to determine what the writer believed was in need of rescue, and why. That's one of the questions still haunting me after Saturday night's premiere of The Mountaintop, playwright Katori Hall's imaginative and controversial account of Martin Luther King's last night alive.
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THE MOUNTAINTOP Puts a Cultural Icon in a New Light
Broadway World
September 24, 2013
A rainy Saturday evening in Chapel Hill was fitting for the opening night of PlayMakers Repertory Company's production of The Mountaintop, produced in partnership with Greensboro's Triad Stage. The play, written by Katori Hall, also takes place on a rainy evening - a fateful one: April 3, 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee. It was the night before Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot, and it follows the man through his final evening, which was spent in his hotel room. Hall mixes historical reality with playful conjecture to create a piece which is heartwarming and thought-provoking.
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'Mountaintop' is engaging, surprising
News & Observer
September 23, 2013
Plays about historical figures often portray their subjects as glorified symbols, but Katori Hall’s The Mountaintop humanizes Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with fears and foibles, humor and hubris.
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In, "The Mountaintop," an imagining of MLK's last night
Durham Herald-Sun
September 19, 2013
In “The Mountaintop,” Katori Hall’s play about the last night of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s life, just two actors are on stage for the 90-minute production. It’s quick and long at the same time, said Cedric Mays, the actor portraying King... Without an intermission, it just “goes, goes, goes” without even a water break, he said.
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Play explores MLK's last night alive
The Daily Tar Heel
September 18, 2013
“This play celebrates the legacy of MLK Jr.,” said Preston Lane, artistic director of Triad Stage. “It reminds us that at one point he was going to take us to the mountaintop. He started a journey for freedom and justice and equality in America. We’re carrying on his dream of what greatness America would be capable of.”
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Katori Hall's Stirring Drama, "The Mountaintop," Is Set on the Day Before MLK Was Assassinated
Triangle Arts and Entertainment
September 18, 2013
The Mountaintop is a stirring two-character drama in which 32-year-old African-American actress and playwright Katori Hall imagines what might have happened on Civil Rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s next-to-last day on Earth — on April 3, 1968 — and asks “What if?”
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