In the opening moments of The Mountaintop, currently onstage at American Stage in St. Petersburg, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. enters his motel room and almost immediately searches under tables, chairs and countertops, and inside the telephone receiver, for listening devices. The civil rights leader is paranoid, and he has every right to be: It’s April, 1968, and he’s not terribly popular with white America.
He’s in Room 306 of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. The audience knows he will be assassinated the following day, as he stands on the motel balcony. Read more at www.stpetecatalyst.com.
