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The Meeting

"The Meeting is a play about what would have happened if Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. had ever met.

It's Valentine's Day in Harlem, 1965. Malcolm X has returned from the UK to an America seething with violence and hatred. His house has been fire-bombed and in one weeks' time, he will be assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom. But tonight, separated from his family and with a death warrant on his head, he will risk the scorn of his followers to meet with the iconic leader whose philosophy he has so fiercely opposed: Dr Martin Luther King, Jr.

Taking place just days after Malcolm X's electrifying visit to England, this highly imagined encounter captures the individual humanity, political maturity and enduring integrity of two men who would ultimately give their lives for freedom."

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