How Playwright Bess Wohl Gets It Done
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- Bess Wohl's play Liberation pays loving tribute to her mother's era of bold feminism.
- The ensemble piece follows the poignant, funny, and often jarring diversity of thought at a women’s consciousness-raising group in 1970s Ohio.
- Wohl interviewed her mom and several others involved in those profoundly radical circles to build the foundation for the script.
- “I did not want them to come and feel that what they had lived through had been misrepresented in some way,” she says.
On the final day of rehearsals for her play Liberation, the writer Bess Wohl was reminiscing about the days her mom would take her to work at Ms. magazine. I remember sitting on the floor of her offi [+6986 chars]
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