Theatre review: Martin Luther King’s last night reveals troubled, tempered man

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Director Omari Newton’s tidy Pacific Theatre production succeeds in delivering a rounded portrait of a man fighting enormous battles.

At one point in The Mountaintop, Katori Hall’s 2009 play about the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. on the night before his 1968 assassination, the mysterious motel maid Camae says to King , “Tomorrow you’ll be a saint.” Earlier she has told him, “You’re just a man.”

We first meet King alone in his drab Memphis motel room, desperately craving coffee and cigarettes, rehearsing a sermon on the theme “Why America is going to hell.” Ameyaw doesn’t attempt to emulate King’s hypnotic cadences. But even alone his King has an upstanding dignity. And he’s clearly troubled.

He finds a receptive audience for his anxieties in Camae, the young Black maid who delivers his coffee and shares her cigarettes with him. She has seen him on TV — “You’re like the Beatles!” — but is hardly awestruck. She’s flirty and self-confident, and he flirts back. Though his reputation as a serial adulterer precedes him, his politics interest her more. She challenges his Gandhian tactics. If we’re going to march, she argues, let’s march for ass-whipping.

 

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