Edwin Booth: a play in two acts

by Lance Tait

"Edwin Booth", among other things, retells one of the greatest stories in American the murder of Abraham Lincoln - a president like George Washington, who is respected worldwide. Washington's end was not tragic. Lincoln's was supremely tragic and still has far-reaching consequences. What is there not to be fascinated about this, possibly THE greatest story of the United States, its people, its politics and its culture? In the multidimensional folkways of America, this play strives to dramatize America's various ethnic strands, and demonstrate how America's diversity is one of its greatest strengths.

167 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 31, 2014

About the author

"Werewolf and Idol" is Lance Tait's first novel. His extensive work for the stage includes theatrical adaptations of 17 short stories by Edgar Allan Poe. His one-act and full-length plays (40+ in total) have been produced or received staged readings in New York, Boston, the American Repertory Theatre at Harvard University, Los Angeles, Denver, Toronto, the United Kingdom, South Africa, South Korea and Paris, France. He is also the author of popular comedy sketches published on Amazon. In 2002, he founded Theatre Metropole in Paris. He has been active as a director/writer/producer of short films on the internet, as well.

Influences and likes (novelists): Sherwood Anderson (“Winesburg, Ohio”), Honoré de Balzac, Emily Brontë, François-René de Chateaubriand, Anton Chekhov, Philip K Dick, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Alexandre Dumas, George Eliot, Gustave Flaubert, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hermann Hesse, Stanisław Lem, Mario Vargas Llosa, Edgar Lee Masters (“Spoon River Anthology”), Herman Melville, Robert Musil, Vladimir Nabokov, Mary Shelley, Frank G. Slaughter, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Stendhal, Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Stoker, Kurt Vonnegut, HG Wells, Virginia Woolf; (short story authors) Jorge Luis Borges, Franz Kafka, Edgar Allan Poe.