Mario Correa, Matthew Freeman.
Offscript, American Theatre’s flagship podcast for a number of years, is usually offered as a Facebook Live chat as well as in this audio format. This month we just have the audio podcast, and it’s a good one. Stay tuned to this feed for more.
This month we talk to two playwrights who’ve each written two-handers about the intergenerational conflict among liberals and/or lefists. Mario Correa’s N/A, now in a special engagement at Lincoln Center, is about the wary, often contentious relationship between Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. And Matthew Freeman’s The Ask, which starts performances on Sept. 6 at the Wild Project in New York City, dramatizes a meeting between a young fundraiser from the ACLU and a wealthy older donor who’s skeptical of the organization’s new direction. Both plays are based on their respective writers’ experiences in politics and advocacy, and we spoke to them last week about their work onstage and off-, the wild political times we live in, and the state of the theatre. One article that is cited in our conversation is this piece about the need for intra-left solidarity, by Maurice Mitchell of the Working Families Party.
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