The Mountaintop **** TNT
Civil rights campaigner Martin Luther King met his end on the balcony of a Memphis motel in 1968. US playwright Katori Hall’s short two-hander imagines his last night, putting an original (if rather whimsical) spin on how he might have passed the hours after his ‘Mountaintop’ speech.
She portrays him as an icon with holes in his socks and (rather smelly) marching feet of clay, susceptible to the attractions of a pretty woman, and yet fiercely idealistic.
Close your eyes, and, in a powerful, magnetic performance, David Harewood becomes the man himself. He’s more than matched by Lorraine Burroughs’ Camae, the sexy, chambermaid who offers coffee, cigarettes, flirtation and the passage to another world.
Trafalgar Studios, Whitehall, SW1A 2DY Charing Cross. (0844 871 7632, ambassadortickets.com) Until Sep 5. £20-£39.50
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