Katori Hall's two-person drama 'The Mountaintop' opens at the Geffen Playhouse.
, imagines the night before King is fatally shot on the balcony outside his second-floor room.
Hall begins “The Mountaintop” with a close-up of the man. King is not yet a martyr, though the speech he just gave at the Mason Temple had intimations of mortality. Facing a budget shortfall of millions of dollars, Center Theatre Group on Thursday announced that it will lay off about 10% of its full-time staff and pause season programming at Mark Taper Forum after “Transparent” concludes its run on June 25.
Amanda Warren as Camae and Jon Michael Hill as Martin Luther King Jr. in “The Mountaintop” at the Geffen Playhouse. The fictional dimension of “The Mountaintop” grows wilder as the nature of the business between King and Camae is revealed. The artificial situation Hall sets up has the feeling of an extended sketch. Dramatic momentum isn’t easy to sustain under these confining conditions. The leap from realism provides a wobbly way out.
The actors infuse the production, directed by Patricia McGregor, with fresh theatrical interest that patches over the dramatic lulls. One might expect the historical figure at the heart of the play to be the dominant force, but “The Mountaintop” really belongs to Camae, who more than holds her own against the august Reverend.
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