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Mountaintop’ at Cleveland Play House is built on hallowed by shaky
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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
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">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.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is a speech he will never give for,
on the hotel balcony at 6:01pm the next day, he will be
killed.</FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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