Katori Hall Inspiration Behind the Mountaintop Play - Duration: 3:12. I don't want to say too much because I feel I'd be giving it away but I just felt that the story was unnecessary and a little disjointed at times. Excellent what if?An effective play about Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. the night before he dies, meeting a foul-mouthed angel. Unfortunately the too often used "f" word limits my ability because I run a small religious nonprofit. Even my friend was telling me she was waiting for it to be over. On the page, there is little flow between the many segments, and they come off feeling very much like segments rather than phases of conversation.

I find that this is one of the best qualities about the play, Hall tears away at the purity of image that we as a society have created for MLK as a civil rights icon.

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I also really loved the future part that kind of put things in the air. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading.

The sound quality is excellent. The protagonist of this drama is not the MLK we read about in history books: he is a drinker,smoker,a womanizer,and even cusses. There's some fun genre bending and some really nice bits regarding Dr. King coming to terms with his imminent death, but they appear way too late in the play. RIP MLK. Last year I was fortunate to see the play, "The Mountaintop" performed at an old theater in Tacoma, Washington. We do see Martin Luther King Jr. in a different light then we are use to from reading/learning about him. However, as I started reading, I was often confused and surprised by what I was seeing. Hall graduated from Columbia University in 2003 with a major in African-American Studies and Creative Writing. It was terrific!

What happened inside room 306 on the evening of April 3 is the subject of Katori Hall's The Mountaintop. More importantly he is a man that has fears. In the last minutes, King has a vision filled with significant names that grab the "baton" to continue the fight for civil rights, events that further the cause, as well as accomplishments that have been made in the future. A good quick read, easily can be finished in a day. I am sure there are those that want to only remember King in a serious and, yes, saintly light. By the end, the author rebuilds the King that people think of now, the more saintly King, the one with content of character. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number.

A man who talked openly about his dreams, about fairness, and about not getting to the Promised Land. and funny! In “The Mountaintop”, King is presented as a man, flawed but formidable, at times goofy, at times vain, but always knowing where he stood in the world and what his goals were. So much as been written about him to keep the dream alive, that we rarely dare to take a glimpse at what may have been, the man behind the dream. Interesting how the play takes a mystical turn after working very hard to DEmystify Dr. King.

A man we look up to, almost fifty years after his death.

With this realization King makes one last wish, to see his legacy and how it will affect the future to come. The play book is well written.

Written by American playwright Katori Hall, The Mountaintop is a gripping re-imagination of events the night before the assassination of the civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. On April 3, 1968, after delivering one of his most memorable speeches, an exhausted Dr. King retires to his room at the Lorraine Motel while a storm rages outside.

I think everyone should read this...It promotes thoughts and inspires one to change and to change their environments...I must read!I flat-out loved it. Dramatists Play Service, one of the premier play-licensing and theatrical publishing agencies in the world, was formed in 1936 to foster national opportunities for playwrights by publishing affordable editions of their plays and handling the performance rights to these works. Very creative. Do not read many reviews as this would be easy to ruin for yourself. The Mountaintop took home England's …

While it is speculative, the playwright brings in very human details based on lesser known facts about Dr. King's life.