‘Tis the season for svelte plays with shortened character names. First there was Shayan Lotfi’s What Became of Us, a two-hander about a pair of siblings, Q and Z. Then Marin Ireland presented Pre-Existing Condition, about a woman, identified simply as “A,” undergoing therapy after breaking up with a man who hit her. Now comes N/A, a play by Mario Correa about two congresswomen identified only by their first initials, but who are instantly recognizable as former House speaker Nancy Pelosi (Holland Taylor) and AOC (Ana Villafañe, a dead ringer for the political phenom). It’s also the least surprising, most anemic of the bunch.

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If the coyly abbreviated title was intended to lend a note of intrigue or indeterminacy to the production, any hope of defamiliarization is banished within the first couple of minutes. Beginning with AOC—or A, as the script insists on calling her—live streaming a speech to her many (unseen, unheard) followers from the Office of the House Minority Leader after winning the Democratic primary and ending with a whimper of a nature documentary parable about foxes and snails, N/A is about as........

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