# Richard Nelson’s play follows a family awaiting US midterm results

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/were-all-on-constantly-shifting-sands-the-play-capturing-life-during-the-us-midterm-elections/
- Published: 2026-11-03T11:00:56+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-03T11:17:52+00:00
- Original publisher: The Guardian (publisher lean: Left)
- Original article: https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/nov/03/well-see-play-midterm-elections
- Topics: Americas, Culture, Elections, Entertainment, Politics, TV, World

## Key points

- Richard Nelson’s Apple family returns during the US midterms.
- The play explores migration, division and American identity.
- It is the latest work in Nelson’s Rhinebeck Panorama series.

## Summary

Richard Nelson’s play *We’ll See* returns to the fictional Apple family as they await the US midterm election results, using an ordinary family’s conversation to explore division and change in America. It is the latest in a long-running series that Nelson says helps him work through his feelings about the country and its place in the world.

The play is part of the Rhinebeck Panorama, which began with four election and anniversary plays set between 2010 and 2013, then expanded into other plays and a pandemic-era Zoom trilogy. *We’ll See* considers migration, gentrification and the effects of ICE raids, alongside accounts of empathy and xenophobia experienced by a Ukrainian actor in New York. Nelson says focusing on a family lets the work examine national life without centring presidents and other leaders.

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