“The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one” Abraham Lincoln"
It's 1865, and the American nation has become disunited by race, power, and politics. To celebrate the end of the long, bloody Civil War, the victorious President Lincoln is enjoying a pleasant evening at the theatre. Not long into the performance a man walks in and shoots him. Why did he do it? Who was he? And why does it still matter today?
As the world builds up to a tumultuous American election this November, Land Of The Free is a searing new play at Southwark Playhouse Borough about John Wilkes Booth, the actor who assassinated a President from the award-winning Simple8 that examines our present by visiting the past.