Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a Nobel Peace Prize-winning Civil Rights Movement leader. The King Center biography noted that during the 13 years of King’s “leadership of the modern American Civil Rights Movement, African Americans achieved more genuine progress toward racial equality in America than the previous 350 years had produced.” Set the night before King’s assassination, he is 39 years old in this play. After giving a speech to a group of striking sanitation workers at a church in Memphis, he retires to his hotel room for the night.
Carrie Mae, or “Camae”, is a mysterious and beautiful maid who captures King’s attention. Somewhere in her twenties, she seemingly just started working at the Lorraine Hotel. Flirtatious and opinionated, Camae turns out to be a surprising visitor.
