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Juma Sharkah plays a fourteen-year-old girl disguised as a boy in Diana Nnekaa Atuona’s immersive play, Liberian Girl, in
its 2015 Royal Court Theatre production in London at which the audience can choose to stand around her on a red-earth
“killing field,” replete with rifle-bearing revolutionaries, or sit apart from the cast in an upper tier of seats. © Johan Persson
Samuel L. Jackson plays Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Angela Bassett plays a motel maid bringing him coffee in African American
playwright Katori Hall’s The Mountaintop, which takes place during the evening preceding the Nobel Prize–winner’s 1968
assassination at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. The 2011 Broadway premiere was directed by Kenny Leon. © Joan Marcus