Bastards

Bastards, a new historical drama, explores the fractured bond between America’s most reveredShakespearean actor, Edwin Booth, and his infamous brother, President Lincoln’s assassin, JohnWilkes Booth. On New Year’s Day, 1892, a dying Edwin attempts a séance to contact his latewife - but accidentally conjures Wilkes.Trapped together, the estranged brothers are forced to relive their shared past: a childhoodmarked by violence, illegitimacy, and the weight of their father’s theatrical legacy; a bitterrivalry forged onstage and off; and the ideological divide that changed the course of Americanhistory. As the past and present collide, Wilkes delights in dismantling Edwin’s legacy, whileEdwin struggles to separate the brother he loved from the killer he became. But as the séancespirals further out of control, it becomes clear that this is no simple haunting - it is a reckoning.In Bastards, legacy isn’t given. It’s inherited, contested, and impossible to escape.