The Mountaintop: L A Theatre Works Radio Audio Drama torrent

On April 4, 1968, Dr. 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 into the early hours of what will be his final day.

Starring Aja Naomi King as Camae and Larry Powell as Dr. Martin Luther King.

Directed by Roger Guenveur Smith and recorded before a live audience in Los Angeles at UCLA in May 2016