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The day before Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968, he gave a prescient speech at a Memphis church promising the congregation that civil rights progress would come one day, even if he wouldn’t live to see it himself.
It’s known as “The Mountaintop” speech, and it’s the inspiration for Katori Hall’s 2009 play of the same name, which is now streaming in a locally filmed new production that plays weekends through May 16. “The Mountaintop” was co-produced by three local companies American History Theater, The Roustabouts Theatre Co. and Teenage Youth Performing Arts Theatre Co. (TYPA).
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The day before Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968, he gave a prescient speech at a Memphis church promising the congregation that civil rights progress would come one day, even if he wouldn’t live to see it himself.
It’s known as “The Mountaintop” speech, and it’s the inspiration for Katori Hall’s 2009 play of the same name, which is now streaming in a locally filmed new production that plays weekends through May 16. “The Mountaintop” was co-produced by three local companies American History Theater, The Roustabouts Theatre Co. and Teenage Youth Performing Arts Theatre Co. (TYPA).
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In Moxie Theatre’s new filmed production of Lauren Gunderson’s moving play “I and You,” the dying teen character Caroline is fighting so hard to stay alive, she can’t or more accurately, she won’t let anybody inside her heart. Then Walt Whitman enters her room.
Not the famed 19th-century American poet himself, but Anthony, a fellow senior at Caroline’s high school who shows up begging for her help on a shared literature project about Whitman’s “Song of Myself.” The 1,300-line autobiographical poem, which Whitman tinkered with from 1855 to 1881, explores grand questions about the self versus humanity, the conscious and the unconscious mind, pain and beauty, and man’s relationship with the universe.