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  • The Mountaintop

    by Katori Hall ...
    Series series Modern Classics
    Exactly one year ago, I stood in that crumbling pulpit in Riverside and shouted that this war would be our own violent undoing, freedom's suicide . . . Well, I'll tell you, there weren't too many Amens that Sunday. But who is a man who does not speak his mind? He is not a man, but I am a man.The night before his assassination, King retires to room 306 in the now-famous Lorraine Motel after giving ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Katori Hall Plays One

    Hoodoo Love; Saturday Night/Sunday Morning; The Mountaintop; Hurt Village

    by Katori Hall ...
    Series series Contemporary Dramatists
    An important new voice for African-American theatre, Katori Hall explores the lives of black and often invisible Americans with vivid language, dynamic narratives and richly textured characterisation.Hoodoo Love is Hall's debut play, a tale of love, magic, jealousy and secrets in 1930s Memphis, written in vivid language which captures the spirit of the Blues.Saturday Night/Sunday Morning is set in ... Read more

    $26.49 USD

  • The Mountaintop

    by Katori Hall, Harvey Young ...
    Series series Student Editions
    The Mountaintop is published here as a Methuen Drama Student Edition, featuring notes and commentary by Harvey Young, Dean of the College of Fine Arts, Boston University, USA. The introduction offers a discussion of key themes including race, identity, politics, magical realism, one-act plays, historical figures and martyrs.The night before his assassination, Martin Luther King, Jr. retires to ... Read more

    $15.39 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Connections 500

    Blackout; Eclipse; What Are They Like?; Bassett; I'm Spilling My Heart Out Here; Gargantua; Children of Killers; Take Away; It Snows; The Musicians; Citizenship; Bedbug

    by Snoo Wilson, Simon Armitage, Bryony Lavery, Davey Anderson, Katori Hall, Mr Patrick Marber, Mr Mark Ravenhill, Mr James Graham, Mr Carl Grose, Ms Stacey Gregg, Ms Lucinda Coxon, Ms Jackie Kay, Frantic Assembly ...
    Series series Plays for Young People
    Drawing together the work of 12 leading playwrights, this National Theatre Connections anthology celebrates highlights from 21 years of the Connections festival with a retrospective selection of plays.Featuring work by some of the most prolific playwrights of the 20th and 21st centuries, and together in one volume, the anthology offers young performers between the ages of 13 and 19 an engaging ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Mountaintop, The

    by Katori Hall ...
    Narrated by Aja Naomi King, Larry Powell ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 4 min

    On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated outside of his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. What happened inside room 306 on the evening of April 3 is the subject of Katori Hall’s The Mountaintop. Hours after King’s final speech, punctuated by his immortal line, “I’ve been to the mountaintop,” the celebrated Reverend forms an unlikely friendship with a motel maid as they talk ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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