Workshop production of Else Went’s new play The Cause, presented as a part of WP Theater’s 2024 Pipeline Festival. Directed by Dina Vovsi. Featuring Yansa Fatima, Jovan Davis, Esther Williamson, Felix Teich, Delaney Feener, and Olivia Rose Barresi. Performing May 2nd through 4th, 2024.
In this house of mirrors, a group of actors and a director gather at a newly formed artist residency, The House Upstate, for a week-long workshop development of The Cause - a new play about a group of actors and a director who gather in a house upstate for a week to shoot The Cause, an experimental film retelling of Othello. As daily rewrites from the absent playwright elevate coincidence to paranoia, jealousy and desire fill the rehearsal room thick as the nightly mist in this quiet, empty town.
Photo by Maria Baranova-Suzuki, 2024.