The Most Famous Man in America

The Most Famous Man in America opens as John Wilkes Booth waits outside Lincoln’s theater box on the fateful evening that will change his life and the course of history. Intensely vain, awkward, and self-doubting, he is an unlikely murderer: more Hamlet than Brutus, and more Lear’s Fool than either. This one-man play written by and starring Christopher Fabbro follows Booth through the next hour as he struggles to write a farewell letter to his mother and even remember his “lines” as episodic flashbacks of his family and love life intervene and threaten to deter him from his appointed task.