The Mountaintop at The Jacobs Theatre, Broadway, New York
Watching Samuel. L. Jackson and Angela Bassett weave their magic was an experience of a lifetime!
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Synopsis:
Taking place on April 3, 1968, The Mountaintop is a gripping reimagining of events the night before the assassination of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (Samuel L. Jackson), as he retires to Room 306 in the now famous Lorraine Motel in Memphis, after delivering his legendary 'I've Been to the Mountaintop' speech to a massive church congregation. When room-service is deli...vered by a young woman, whose identity we puzzle over, King is forced to confront his past, as well as his legacy to his people.
NEW YORK TIMES REVIEW:
"Even before the first flash of lightning — and there will be plenty of that before evening’s end — an ominous electricity crackles through the opening moments of “The Mountaintop,” Katori Hall’s surprisingly thin new play about a monumental subject, which opened on Thursday at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theater. It’s not that what we’re looking at appears in itself to be fraught with significance. It’s only a generic, dirt-toned motel room, depressingly familiar in its seediness. "
Yet if you’ve checked your program, you’re probably regarding that room through
the anxious blur that people bring to the contemplation of events terrible and
historic. The time and place of “The Mountaintop,” which stars an
estimable Samuel
L. Jackson and Angela
Bassett, are (the playbill says): “April 3, 1968. Room 306, Lorraine Motel,
Memphis, Tennessee.” That’s the day before the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
was assassinated;
the place is where he spent his last
night. Taking place on April 3, 1968, The Mountaintop is a gripping reimagining of events the night before the assassination of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (Samuel L. Jackson), as he retires to Room 306 in the now famous Lorraine Motel in Memphis, after delivering his legendary 'I've Been to the Mountaintop' speech to a massive church congregation. When room-service is deli...vered by a young woman, whose identity we puzzle over, King is forced to confront his past, as well as his legacy to his people.
NEW YORK TIMES REVIEW:
"Even before the first flash of lightning — and there will be plenty of that before evening’s end — an ominous electricity crackles through the opening moments of “The Mountaintop,” Katori Hall’s surprisingly thin new play about a monumental subject, which opened on Thursday at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theater. It’s not that what we’re looking at appears in itself to be fraught with significance. It’s only a generic, dirt-toned motel room, depressingly familiar in its seediness. "
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