KING

Description

No Man or Woman should have to suffer oppression Luther. It's your Birthright to be free, my Love. KING tells the story of Luther, a man from Cork named in honour of his Granny Bee Baw's hero, Dr Martin Luther King Jr.. Luther only leaves his apartment for essential journeys, and to perform as an Elvis impersonator. The play explores oppression, privilege, and resilience, as Luther struggles to live life to the full. This edition is published to coincide with the premiere production by Fishamble in February 2023. It is the fifth solo play by Pat Kinevane, following Forgotten, Silent, Underneath, and Before, which are the winners of many international awards, including the Olivier, Helen Hayes, Herald Archangel, and Scotsman Fringe Firsts.

Pat Kinevane is a native of Cobh, Co. Cork. He has worked as an actor in theatre, film, television and radio for 22 years. As a writer he completed his first full length play The Nun's Wood in 1997 which won a BBC Stewart Parker Trust Award and was produced by Fishamble. Fishamble then produced his second play The Plains of Enna (Dublin Theatre Festival '99). Pat wrote The Death of Herod for Mysteries 2000 at the SFX. In 2008 his piece Evangeline Elsewhere premiered in New York in the First Irish Festival. Pat toured his solo piece Forgotten in 2012. (Irish Times Theatre Award Nominee 08). He has performed Forgotten extensively throughout Ireland and in Paris, Prague, Romania, Turkey, Bulgaria, Edinburgh, Liverpool, Iceland, Washington, Boston and New York since 2008.