How writer Bess Wohl and director Whitney White created a play about feminism that feels joyful

How writer Bess Wohl and director Whitney White created a play about feminism that feels joyful

“I wanted it to feel buoyant,” Tony Award-nominated director Whitney White told Broadway News of molding Bess Wohl’s new play “Liberation.” The play toggles between present day and the 1970s as a woman named Lizzie imagines what her mother’s consciousness-raising group during feminism’s second wave might have been like. A theatrical piece on this topic could feel heavy, but Wohl’s script and its mounting have a glow and a lightness to it.“Also i…