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From The Mountaintop
In Katori Hall s The Mountaintop, it is April 3, 1968, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is in room 306 of the Lorraine Motel. It s the day before his murder, and he has just given the speech I ve Been to the Mountaintop at a Memphis Mason Temple.
(Courtesy Duluth Playhouse)
The Duluth Playhouse is hosting a virtual staged reading of the play, which starred Samuel L. Jackson and Angela Bassett when it played on Broadway, to celebrate Martin Luther King Day.
Actor Gabriel Mayfield is King in this reading, and Daysha Ramsey is Camae, a maid who visits with him.