The Cause

Workshop presentation of Else Went’s play, presented as a part of New York Theatre Workshop’s Mondays at 3 reading series, on March 30th, 2026. Directed by Emma Rosa Went. Featuring Martin K. Lewis, Delaney Feener, Van Dukes, Felix Teich, Esther Williamson, and Olivia Rose Barresi.

In The Cause, a group of actors and a director gather at newly formed artist residency, "The House Upstate," for a week-long workshop development of The Cause, a new play in which a group of actors and a director who gather in a house upstate for a week to rehearse The Cause, an experimental adaptation of Othello. As daily rewrites from an absent author elevate coincidence to paranoia, Othello's themes of jealousy and ambition fill the rehearsal room thick as the nightly mist in this quiet, empty town.