[NEohioPAL] Review of "The Mountaintop" at Cleveland Play House

[Bob Abelman via NEohioPAL]

‘The Mountaintop’ at Cleveland Play House is built on hallowed by shaky ground



Bob Abelman

Cleveland Jewish News, The News Herald, The Morning Journal

Member, International Association of Theatre Critics

  

As if atoning for the magnificent but mindless musical being performed on its Allen Theatre stage, the Cleveland Play House has selected Katori Hall’s self-righteous 2009 drama “Mountaintop” for its intimate Outcult Theatre offering.



The play takes place on the evening of April 3, 1968 in Room 305 of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, as a road-weary and ailing Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. returns to fine-tune his next speech.  It is a speech he will never give for, on the hotel balcony at 6:01pm the next day, he will be killed.



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