A woman struggles to keep several terrible family secrets, the implication of which are only worsened by a puritanical Pastor, a lascivious son, and her own guilt-ridden, well hidden past. Full of dark symbols, Ghosts exemplifies Henrik Ibsen’s uncanny ability to overturn Victorian social values by using them as the damning elements in his work. Now, BTF favorites Director Anders Cato and Dramaturg James Leverett present a brand new translation of this classic of the theatre.
David Adkins as Manders
In David Adkins’s fourteen BTF seasons, he has performed in Waiting for Godot, Love! Valour! Compassion!, The Misanthrope, The Father, Middle Ages, Hasty Heart, and Charley’s Aunt. This past season: To Kill a Mockingbird (Barrington stage), The Seafarer (George St. Playhouse), Trances (Merrimac), and One Life To Live. NY productions include Transfigures (The Women’s Project), Saint Joan (National Actors Theater), Boy Gets Girl (Manhattan Theater Club), Sabina, Immaculate Misconception (Primary Stages), and Agamemnon (Aquila Theatre Company). Regional productions: Three Sisters, Blythe Spirit, King Lear, Ideal Husband (CenterStage), I Am my Own Wife, Tuesday’s with Morrie (Madison Repertory Theatre), Boy Gets Girl (Goodman Theatre), Time Flies (The Old Globe), Going Native (Long Wharf Theatre), Colossus of Rhodes, The Misanthrope (ACT, San Francisco), Walk in the Woods (George Street Playhouse), Romeo & Juliet, Marisol (Denver Center Theatre Company), and The Misanthrope (Philadelphia Drama Guild). Television: Without a Trace, Chicago Hope, Trinity, Law & Order, L&O Special Victims Unit, the pilot: Blaq Jaq (Forest Whitaker), a docudrama for PBS: Ben Franklin, One Life to Live, Another World, All My Children. David trained at BTF and The Juilliard School.
Ms. Dillon is a veteran stage actor whose Broadway credits include Our Town, The Miser, Hay Fever, Crimes of the Heart (Tony nomination, Clarence Derwent and Drama Logue Awards), Agnes of God, The Corn is Green, Once a Catholic (Drama Desk nomination), and Da. Her Off-Broadway credits include The Metal Children, Mary Rose, The Exonerated, New England, and The Three Sisters at Manhattan Theatre Club, and Come Back, Little Sheba for Roundabout Theatre Company. Among her many regional credits are Noël Coward in Two Keys, Paris Bound directed by Vivian Matalon and Palace of Amateurs (all three for BTF), Sylvia, Molly Sweeney, Private Lives, Wonderful Tennessee, Dancing at Lughnasa, The Cherry Orchard, Speed-The-Plow, Heartbreak House, and Much Ado About Nothing. Ms. Dillon’s film and television credits include Gods & Generals, A Shock to the System, The Money Pit, Terms of Endearment, the upcoming First Born, all three Law & Order’s, the upcoming All Good Things, and a recurring role on The Jury.
At BTF- Davies in The Caretaker, McMurphy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Frank in Educating Rita, Salieri in Amadeus, David Hare in Via Dolorosa and Nelson in Rat in the Skull. He has been a Master Teacher of the BTF Apprentice Company. He has performed On and Off Broadway, in London’s West End as Goethe’s Faust, and in dozens of regional theatres across America. For many years he was a principal actor, teacher and director with Shakespeare & Company, where his roles included Benedick, Puck, Bottom, Dogberry, Feste, Richard III, Iago, Macbeth, Lear, and scores of others. He is much in demand as a guest lecturer on Shakespeare and the Sonnets at universities and theatre companies across the country. Mr. Epstein has twice been the recipient of Eliot Norton Awards for Outstanding Actor. He most recently appeared as Max Kellerman in the Pre-Broadway National Tour of Dirty Dancing.
At Berkshire Theatre Festival: A Man For All Seasons, Educating Rita, Amadeus, Equus, The Misanthrope, Peter Pan, Dimetos, A Dream Play, The Einstein Project (2000), and Camelot. New York: Me, My Guitar and Don Henley (14th Street Y), Shel’s Shorts and The Secretaries (Project Theater @ the 78th Street Lab). Connecticut Rep: Translations, The Trojan Women, Red Noses, The House of Bernarda Alba, Misalliance, The Crucible, A Cry of Players and A Christmas Carol. Chicago: Manuscript Found in Saragossa (Lookingglass Theatre Company) and Gravid Water (Improv Olympic). Nebraska Shakespeare Festival: Henry V, Love’s Labours Lost, King Lear, and Much Ado About Nothing. Education: BFA from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. MFA from the University of Connecticut. Many thanks to family and friends for their constant love and support, and to J for everything.
This is Randy’s fifth season at Berkshire Theatre Festival. Previous productions include Equus, Amadeus, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, and Waiting for Godot. Broadway: Boq in Wicked. Off-Broadway: The Singing Forest (Public Theatre), Antony and Cleopatra (TFNA), Edward the Second (Red Bull Theater Company), An Oak Tree (Barrow Street Theatre) and A Letter from Ethel Kennedy (MCC). Regional: The Glass Menagerie (Guthrie Theater), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (SITI Company, ASF), Violet and 1776. Television: Queer as Folk and Bang, Bang You’re Dead. Randy is cofounder of the Arts Bureau (tAB), a Brooklyn based non-profit arts organization: www.theartsbureau.org.
