Atlanta Adult Entertainment: Hollywood, stage dramas have a lens on MLK
Posted on July 22nd, 2010 in Atlanta adult entertainment
… The Mountaintop,” for instance, is American playwright Katori Hall’s imagining of a Lorraine Motel meeting between King, on the night before his assassination, and a hotel maid, who turns out to be an angel who leads him to see the future. The play shares a setting with “The Man in Room 306,” a one-man show that had an off-Broadway run early this year that depicts King riddled with doubts and regrets.
Hall told the London theater Web site whatsonstage.com that she wanted to create a King who was human, to dramatize the real pressure shouldered by a man many put on a pedestal. “That was always my intent, to create a human being,” Hall said. “And in doing that, I guess I have pierced this saintly idea of him.”
The original Paul Webb screenplay for “Selma” raised a few eyebrows with its less-than-saintly take, including a bedroom scene between King and a prostitute. But director Daniels (”Precious”) submitted that the script was still being revised and that his focus was on civil rights marches and “the African-American man who changed history.”
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