Our American Cousin review " Yankee hero saves the play but not the president by Michael Billington

Finborough, LondonTom Taylor's protagonist packs a punch in this sometimes heavy-handed comic melodrama that Abraham Lincoln was watching on the night he was assassinated"And how did you enjoy the play, Mrs Lincoln?" runs a famously tasteless quip. We'll never know the answer, but this is the work that she and President Lincoln were watching on the night of his assassination at Ford's theatre, Washington, 150 years a…

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