From ACTORS COLLABORATIVE TOLEDO
In honor of African-American History Month, Actors Collaborative Toledo presents a staged reading of “The Mountaintop” on Saturday, Feb. 15 at 8 p.m. and Feb 16 at 3:00 p.m. at Trinity Episcopal Church, 316 Adams Street, Toledo.
Tickets are $10 in advance from www.act419.org or $12 at the door.
This intimate play by Katori Hallis directed by Rick Clever. “The Mountaintop” stars Natalie Bostelman as Camae and Jesse Duckworth as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
A gripping re-imagination of events the night before the assassination of the civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. On April 3, 1968, after delivering one of his most memorable speeches, an exhausted Dr. King retires to his room at the Lorraine Motel while a storm rages outside. When a mysterious stranger arrives with some surprising news, King is forced to confront his destiny and his legacy to his people.
What the critics have said about “The Mountaintop”:
“Even before the first flash of lightning—and there will be plenty of that before evening’s end—an ominous electricity crackles through the opening moments of “The Mountaintop.” —NY Times. “[“The Mountaintop”] crackles with theatricality and a humanity more moving than sainthood.” —NY Newsday. “…as audacious as it is inventive…[a] thrilling, wild, provocative flight of magical realism…Hall keeps her audience guessing…This is playwriting without a net, a defiant poke in the eye of all historical conventions and political correctness…The King that is left after Hall’s humanization project is somehow more real and urgent and whole.” —Associated Press.
