Arts at UNCW

The Mountaintop

The Mountaintop

On April 4th, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated outside of his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. What happened inside room 306 on the evening of April 3rd is the subject of Katori Hall’s The Mountaintop. Hours after King’s final speech, punctuated by his immortal line, “I’ve been to the mountaintop,” the celebrated Reverend forms an unlikely friendship with a motel maid as they talk into the early hours of what will be his final day.

An L.A. Theatre Works full cast performance featuring:

Karen Malina White as Camae
Gilbert Glenn Brown as Dr. Martin Luther King

Directed by Shirley Jo Finney. Recorded in Los Angeles before a live audience at The James Bridges Theater, UCLA in May of 2016.

The Mountaintop