The Meeting
February 1965, in a Harlem hotel, Malcolm X and Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr., meet.
Two great minds, two roads of freedom!
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McCoy Meetin' House
Monday, February 12, 2007
7:00 p.m.
 Watch It
In this moving and thought provoking work, playwright Jeff Stetson imagines
for us what a clandestine meeting might have been like between two of the most
influential men of their times: Martin Luther King and Malcolm X.
February, 1965. A shabby Harlem hotel room becomes the backdrop for this
momentous confrontation between King, a Baptist minister, Nobel Prize winner and
champion of non-violent protest and Malcolm, advocate of self defense through
any means necessary, and himself the center of fractional warring within his own
Muslim faith. Within a week, Malcolm will be assassinated, and in three short
years Dr. King will also become martyred to the crusade for freedom. But in this
historic moment, the audience becomes privy to what could have been. The play
examines both the public and private lives: the clash of two ideas and tactics
for the advancement of freedom, but also the humanity of two devout men of
faith, loving fathers and husbands, and leaders willing to lay down their lives
for the cause of justice.
“A moving, educational play, (Dr. King and Malcolm X) raise gripping
questions and the reviewer can’t help but feel compelled to search for his or
her own Answers”…Sophia Kim…. LOS ANGELES READER
“An absorbing play…the fine production is a strong reminder to those who have
forgotten, both old and young, the sacrifices of two great American heroes”…
Dori Worsham - The Oakland Tribune
“ Stirring moments of impassioned rhetoric…you feel as if you’ve watched a
kind of human-scale wrestling with angels”
Scott Rosenberg… San Francisco Examiner
Tickets
A limited number of tickets will be available free to the public beginning
January 16. Contact Tatiana Woldman at
tatiana.woldman@park.edu or (816) 584-6508 for more information.
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