The Mountaintop

Aurora Theatre
128 Pike Street Lawrenceville, GA 30045

Winner of London's Olivier Award for Best New Play, this gripping and poetic drama envisions the events that might've taken place the evening before Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination. Katori Hall's fictional reimagining begins in Memphis in April, 1968, as King finishes delivering his impassioned "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech. Exhausted, he retires to room 306 at the Lorraine Motel, where he encounters a young hotel maid with whom he forges an unexpected relationship. During a conversation that ranges from the personal to the political, King finds himself confronting his own destiny and the fate of the very nation to which he's devoted his life. Samuel L. Jackson chose this powerfully spiritual story for his Broadway debut in '09, and now you can catch this acclaimed show at the Aurora Theatre in Lawrenceville.