Dr. King's Dream   This brilliant depiction of the life and career of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. stars Warren C. Bowles in a stirring solo performance.It begins at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis on April 4, 1968, as Dr. King answers a young colleague's question with an anecdote from the Montgomery bus boycott.The play instantly shifts to Montgomery and, over the next forty-five minutes, brings to life all of the dignity, courage, devotion, and humanity of a most remarkable American leader. Both the external events in Dr. King's career (the Selma and Birmingham demonstrations, the 1962 March on Washington, winning the Nobel Peace Prize, etc.) and his wide-ranging thoughts and opinions (on fear, non-violence, his children, the police, Malcolm X, and other topics) are included in Dr. King's Dream, as is his soaring "I Have A Dream" speech.Yet for all the historic and specific incidents, what emerges is the spirit of a man dedicated to racial equality through non-violence, dedicated to an ideal and to a dream.    

About the Actor:

Warren C. Bowles, the talented actor featured in Dr. King's Dream, has been a member of Mixed Blood's company since 1977.A graduate of the University of Notre Dame, he received his Master's in Theatre at the University of Minnesota.In 1984 he became the first African American to play the title role in Cyrano de Bergerac, adding it to his scores of credits at Mixed Blood.Among the most recent and notable of those are Distracted, Point of Revue, Dance on Widow’s Walk, Flags, Wait Until Dark, The Boys Next Door, Oleanna, and King of the Kosher Grocers.Warren has played Dr. King for Mixed Blood since 1980 (having also toured as Paul Robeson and Jackie Robinson), visiting twenty states and performing for over 1.3 million people.He has also appeared Off-Broadway, at the Guthrie and Cricket Theatres in Minneapolis, the American Players' Theatre in Spring Green (WI), and with other companies across the country.He directed Mixed Blood's production of Permanent Collection and its touring productions of Daughters of Africa, Jackie Robinson and Black Eagle, having written the latter for Mixed Blood in 1997.Mixed Blood will tour his new play African America this year.