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The Theatre at the Imperial Centre is pleased to announce our cast for Katori Hall's masterpiece, "The Mountaintop" directed by Brooke Edwards. The cast is as follows: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. - Greg Spence Camae - Daphne Trevathan Thank you to all who auditioned. Performances are April 27, 28, 29 @ 7:30 PM and April 30 @ 2 PM. All performances are at the Booker T Theatre Tickets will be available for sale April 1st. For more information please call 252-972-1266. THE STORY: A gripping reimagination of events the night before the assassination of the civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. On April 3, 1968, after delivering one of his most memorable speeches, an exhausted Dr. King retires to his room at the Lorraine Motel while a storm rages outside. When a mysterious stranger arrives with some surprising news, King is forced to confront his destiny and his legacy to his people. "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." —NY Times. "[THE MOUNTAINTOP] crackles with theatricality and a humanity more moving than sainthood." —NY Newsday. "…as audacious as it is inventive…[a] thrilling, wild, provocative flight of magical realism…Hall keeps her audience guessing…This is playwriting without a net, a defiant poke in the eye of all historical conventions and political correctness…The King that is left after Hall's humanization project is somehow more real and urgent and whole." —Associated Press. Brooke Edwards, MFA Artistic and Managing Director Theater at the Imperial Centre City of Rocky Mount 207 Gay Street Rocky Mount, NC 27804 Office: 252-972-1156
The Theatre at the Imperial Centre is pleased to announce our cast for Katori Hall's masterpiece, "The Mountaintop" directed by Brooke Edwards. The cast is as follows:
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. - Greg Spence Camae - Daphne Trevathan
Thank you to all who auditioned. Performances are April 27, 28, 29 @ 7:30 PM and April 30 @ 2 PM. All performances are at the Booker T Theatre Tickets will be available for sale April 1st. For more information please call 252-972-1266.
THE STORY: A gripping reimagination of events the night before the assassination of the civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. On April 3, 1968, after delivering one of his most memorable speeches, an exhausted Dr. King retires to his room at the Lorraine Motel while a storm rages outside. When a mysterious stranger arrives with some surprising news, King is forced to confront his destiny and his legacy to his people. "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." —NY Times. "[THE MOUNTAINTOP] crackles with theatricality and a humanity more moving than sainthood." —NY Newsday. "…as audacious as it is inventive…[a] thrilling, wild, provocative flight of magical realism…Hall keeps her audience guessing…This is playwriting without a net, a defiant poke in the eye of all historical conventions and political correctness…The King that is left after Hall's humanization project is somehow more real and urgent and whole." —Associated Press.
Brooke Edwards, MFA Artistic and Managing Director Theater at the Imperial Centre City of Rocky Mount 207 Gay Street Rocky Mount, NC 27804 Office: 252-972-1156