The Mountaintop by Katori Hall
Presented by Different Strokes! Performing Arts Collective.
It’s a stormy night at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is exhausted.
He’s working on tomorrow’s speech, and he’s fresh out of smokes. He rings room service for coffee. He calls his wife and fiddles with his phrasing.
His coffee arrives, along with a sexy, sassy hotel maid named Camae; and that’s when things get weird.
Just who exactly is this Camae? How did King spend his last few hours alive? Was he scared? Angry? Did he have regrets? Is God a woman?
(Wait, what?)
The questions build as the night (and Camae’s true identity) unfolds.
Different Strokes Performing Arts Collective presents The Mountaintop, the second show of their 6th season, under the direction of Steph Hickling Beckman.
The show will run June 2-18, 2016, Thursday through Saturday evenings at 7:30 p.m. at the Be Be Theatre, 20 Commerce Street in Asheville. Tickets are $18 in advance and $21 at the door. Post-show discussions follow Friday and Saturday performances.
For more details call (828) 254-2621.
