Off-Broadway’s “N/A” at Lincoln Center, written by a former congressional aide, is inspired by the ideological battle between Nancy Pelosi and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
NEW YORK — This was not how newly elected members of the House of Representatives were supposed to behave. And yet, days after she won her seat in 2018,
as a political ingenue arriving in Washington full of revolutionary fervor and an audience of stans, trying to find an accord with N, a steely wielder of legislative leverage. knocked on his family’s door one summer afternoon and said she was running for Congress, Correa signed up as a volunteer for her campaign.Morella was a Republican running in an open seat in heavily Democratic Montgomery County in 1986, but she was pro-abortion rights, pro-gay rights and pro-environment. She won, and Correa scuttled his plans to attend the University of Virginia and instead enrolled at Georgetown so he could also work for Morella on Capitol Hill.
“I think of Shakespeare: ‘The force of his own merit makes his way,’” Morella, now 93, said of her former protégé, quoting “Henry VIII.” “Politics really got into his blood from his time with me, but he really had to make his own way in this world.”In 2002, Morella was all but redistricted out of office, and Correa went to work as a lobbyist, later moving to New York to see whether he could make it as a writer.
Despite being two of the most recognizable members of Congress, Ocasio-Cortez and Pelosi remain caricatures in much of the public’s eye.“We never get to see how these people are when they aren’t on camera,” said Ana Villafañe, who plays A opposite Holland Taylor, who plays N.Gloria Estefan in the jukebox musical “On Your Feet!,”
Taylor, a multi-Emmy-nominated veteran television actor, stressed that while she was not actually playing Pelosi, her character has been shaped by the same life experiences.“She is one hundred percent motivated by the highest possible good for the country,” she said. “She has her eye on the prize. Getting 218 votes on any bill is the most important thing. As she says in the play, they are all there to get things done.
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