As the ongoing migration crisis continues to fuel dangerous racism across Europe, one theatre company is hoping to illuminate the present by looking to the past – specifically the life and death of civil rights leader Martin Luther King. "A play about the present problems would lack perspective and probably preach to the converted, or at least be very predictable," said Paul Stebbings, artistic direct of British touring company TNT and the author of America: Dreams and Nightmares, which will be playing in Valletta this week as part of aninternational tour. "Through the prism of the events in the US 50 or so years ago, people in Malta can reflect on their own experience and be moved by history as opposed to being oppressed by the present," Mr Stebbings told the Times of Malta. The play, which has already been performed across Europe and further afield ahead of its visit to Malta, explores the spiritual and political journey of a once humble preacher raised to the status of icon and martyr. It picks up the story at Memphis just a few moments before King was murdered and delves into the conflicts, inner demons, guilt and fragility of this great leader. Nearly half a century since...
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