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New play in London, " The Mountaintop" (Re: MLK)

Katori Hall’s The Mountaintop transfers to Trafalgar Studios from 16 July following a sold-out, critically acclaimed run at Theatre503.

The play, directed by James Dacre, imagines its way into Martin Luther King's last evening at the Lorraine Motel on April 3, 1968 - the day before his assassination....

Read entire article at Telegraph (UK)