Mario Correa, Matthew Freeman.
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This month we speak to 2 playwrights who’ve every written two-handers concerning the intergenerational battle amongst liberals and/or lefists. Mario Correa’s N/A, now in a particular engagement at Lincoln Heart, is concerning the cautious, usually contentious relationship between Speaker of the Home Nancy Pelosi and New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. And Matthew Freeman’s The Ask, which begins performances on Sept. 6 on the Wild Mission in New York Metropolis, dramatizes a gathering between a younger fundraiser from the ACLU and a rich older donor who’s skeptical of the group’s new course. Each performs are based mostly on their respective writers’ experiences in politics and advocacy, and we spoke to them final week about their work onstage and off-, the wild political instances we stay in, and the state of the theatre. One article that’s cited in our dialog is this piece concerning the want for intra-left solidarity, by Maurice Mitchell of the Working Households Social gathering.
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