Springfield Contemporary Theatre's SCT Center Stage in Wilhoit Plaza will present the drama "The Mountaintop" by Katori Hall, directed by Rick Dines, October 14-30. This Olivier Award-winning drama about leadership, legacy, mortality and the man behind the myth is set on April 3, 1968, when an exhausted Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. retires to his room, #306, at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis after delivering the prophetic ‘Mountaintop’ speech at the Mason Temple during the sanitation workers’ strike. Director Rick Dines calls Hall’s play “a historical fiction of sorts... I guarantee you parts of this did not happen (in real life)!” Dr. King calls down for room service, and strikes up a conversation with Camae, the motel maid who brings up a cup of coffee for him. That’s the basis of this two-character play. They talk about “stuff in their personal lives, stuff about the (civil rights) movement—all kinds of things,” says Rick Dines. “And as this conversation unfolds there’s a major
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