From ACTORS COLLABORATIVE TOLEDO
In honor of African-American History Month, ACT will present a staged reading of “The Mountaintop,” the acclaimed play by Katori Hall” Saturday, Feb. 3 at 8p.m. and Sunday, Feb. 4, 2024, at 3 p.m. at Trinity Episcopal Church, 316 Adams Street, Toledo.
Tickets can be purchased in advance at www.act419.org.
This intimate play is directed by Rick Clever and stars Natalie Bostelman as Camae and Bradley Baker as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
“The Mountaintop” is 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.
The Associated Press review called “The Mountaintop” “ as audacious as it is inventive.” It is 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.”
