On Broadway Stages, a New Kind of Fake News
Holland Taylor (left) and Ana Villafañe as fictional versions of Nancy Pelosi and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in Mario Correa’s “N/A” (2024). Photo by Sara Krulwich/The New York Times
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Recent plays are approaching the archival density of the Jeffrey Epstein files. Mark Rosenblatt’s “Giant,” about the children’s book author Roald Dahl, arrived on Broadway this season bristling with monstrous excerpts from published accounts of Dahl’s antisemitic screeds. Off Broadway earlier this year, the director Daniel Fish devised “Fauci/Kramer” from the transcript of a brawlsome 1993 C-SPAN debate between the AIDS researcher Anthony Fauci and the AIDS activist Larry Kramer.
Last year’s “Liberation,” by Bess Wohl, about the hopes and failures of second-wave feminism, is based partly on interviews with participants in real meetings of a 1970s consciousness-raising group. In 2024, Mario Correa’s “N/A” — the “N” for Nancy Pelosi; the “A” for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — offered ferocious, mile-a-minute yet totally imaginary depictions of private conversations between the two congresswomen.
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