Find the best The Land of the Free play tickets at Southwark Playhouse Borough, Inner London. 1865. The United States are disunited by politics, power and race. To celebrate the end of Civil War, a victorious Abraham Lincoln goes to the theatre. Not long into the show a man walks in and shoots him. Who was he? Why did he do it? And why does it matter now? A play about John Wilkes Booth, the actor who assassinated a President.