. >> reporter: she also starred as devon finestra.heart is full. >> reporter: in mick jagger's hbo show "vinyl." so if the 1984 on broadway is a bit of a departure for her. so this is your broadway debut? >> this is, yes. >> reporter: what an intense debut. >> it is an intense debut, but i wouldn't want it any other way. >> sunday afternoon. at 15 get the train. >> reporter: the character julia is the ambiguous love interest who's either betraying the regime or betraying her lover. we're never quite sure which. >> no love except love of big brother. no loyalty except to the party. >> ambiguous. >> ambiguous, yes. as orwell intended. >> is she a collaborator or is she -- >> the question is never answered. i have an answer for myself. >> what do you believe? >> i don't know. it sort of ruins it to give i away. >> tell me afterwards. >> reporter: the production comes at a moment when new york theater is a political hotbed. >> vice president-elect pence, we welcome you and we -- >> reporter: last year the incoming vice president got an ea