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The Mountaintop
Author: Katori Hall
Narrator: Aja Naomi King, Larry Powell
Unabridged: 1 hr 4 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: L.A. Theatre Works
Published: 10/21/2016
Category: Drama - American - African American
Synopsis
On April 4, 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 3 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: Aja Naomi King as CamaeLarry Powell as Dr. Martin Luther King Directed by Roger Guenveur Smith. Recorded in Los Angeles before a live audience at The James Bridges Theater, UCLA in May of 2016.