The Mountaintop at Noyes Cultural Art Center

Chicago Reader - Highly Recommended

"...Pitcher plays King as a man on the brink of complete exhaustion, consumed with terror for his life and uncertainty about the fate of his movement. "Fear is my lover," he says. Patterson beautifully alternates between dressing down King for his self-importance and coddling his insecurity, between pushing away his advances and acquiescing to them. When revelation comes, she does the talking while Pitcher listens. Pitcher's performance begins in fear and ends with a transfiguration, as the earthly Martin Luther King Jr.-who worries for his movement's future, who plays too much, and who is so scared of being shot at any moment that thunderclaps outside the window startle him from his chair-prepares himself spiritually, with Carmae's help, for martyrdom."