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In a One-Man Show, the Essence of Dr. King 

Transforming the black box theater of Luna Stage into an evocative replica of Memphis's Lorraine Motel, circa 1968, was challenge enough for Charlie Corcoran, who designed the sets for "The Man in Room 306. . . .

A strikingly human Dr. King emerges. Exhausted from lack of sleep, hounded by J. Edgar Hoover and the F.B.I. and under siege by white supremacists and the burgeoning Black Power movement, Mr. Edwards's Dr. King wolfs down any morsels of food still left on the room service tray and tries, unsuccessfully, to light a tiny cigarette butt.

"Don't tell Coretta," he begs, admitting that he promised her he would quit.

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