Ohio university production of Katori corridor’s The Mountaintop featured a white and black actor as King,which corridor says was ‘disrespectful’ and a disservice’The casting of a white actor as Martin Luther King in an Ohio university production of Katori corridor’s acclaimed play The Mountaintop was “a disservice to not just Dr King but an entire community”, the playwright has said.corridor wrote an essay for the African American cultural website the Root on Monday about Kent State University’s production of her play, and which dramatizes the night before King was assassinated in 1968.
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Source: theguardian.com