About The Mountaintop
"I’m a sinner, not a saint.”
April 3, 1968. Room 306, the Lorraine Motel, Memphis. It’s Dr Martin Luther King Jnr’s last night on Earth.
Exhausted from a life on the road, hoarse from testifying day after day, all King wants is a coffee and some cigarettes.
Room service arrives in the form of Camae, a motel maid with the face of an angel who smokes, drinks, and curses like a sailor while giving King a run for his money.
This urgent production imagines the man behind the legend on the eve of his assassination. Pulling away the mask of his public façade and revealing private turmoil – the conflict of the family man and the martyr, desperate to finish what he started.
Set during the height of America’s Civil Rights Movement, Katori Hall’s Olivier award-winning play confronts life, death and the idea of legacy.
"This play is a sensation"
The Herald
"This brilliant, visionary, and disturbing play could hardly seem more timely."
The Scotsman
"Katori Hall is a rare and insightful writer."
Arts Review Edinburgh
"Roberts and Hayes make an electric duo in this fierce two-hander"
Bouquets and Brickbats
"Urgent and timely"
The Times
"Vital"
All Edinburgh Theatre
"Electric... Caleb Roberts as King and Shannon Hayes as Camae are exceptional"
Speak The Speech
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Cast and Credits
- Writer Katori Hall
- Director Rikki Henry
- Designer Hyemi Shin
- Lighting Designer Benny Goodman
- Composer Pippa Murphy
- Casting Director Louis Hammond CDG
- Video Designer Lewis den Hertog
- Assistant Director Shamama Fatima
- Supported by a Federation of Scottish Theatre Assistant Director Bursary with funding from Creative Scotland
Dates & Times
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