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Adrian Decosta as Martin Luther King, with Will Batty, Andrew Earl and Lincoln James
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The Life and Death of Martin Luther King
Golden Goose Theatre, London
“THE only thing that I’m truly scared of is myself” is the line that lingers in the mind as the audience departs TNT Theatre’s turbulent retelling of MLK’s famous life.
Sandwiched in a discussion between his wife Corretta and his trusted right-hand man Ralph Abernathy during the Montgomery bus boycott, the almost-mythical Baptist minister seems consumed by self-doubt, as he does through much of this production.
Snappy vignettes of King’s campaigning life retell many of his victorious struggles from Selma, Alabama, to Washington DC with creative vigour.
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