Bastards, a new historical drama, explores the fractured bond between America’s most revered
Shakespearean actor, Edwin Booth, and his infamous brother, President Lincoln’s assassin, John
Wilkes Booth. On New Year’s Day, 1892, a dying Edwin attempts a séance to contact his late
wife - but accidentally conjures Wilkes.

Trapped together, the estranged brothers are forced to relive their shared past: a childhood
marked by violence, illegitimacy, and the weight of their father’s theatrical legacy; a bitter
rivalry forged onstage and off; and the ideological divide that changed the course of American
history. As the past and present collide, Wilkes delights in dismantling Edwin’s legacy, while
Edwin struggles to separate the brother he loved from the killer he became. But as the séance
spirals 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.