Video: How Bess Wohl Drew on Her Past to Create LIBERATION
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What goes into crafting the words that make up our favorite Broadway shows? How do Broadway playwrights and book writers make our favorite characters shine and our favorite scenes come alive? BroadwayWorld is finding out with Notes on a Script.
1970s, Ohio. Lizzie gathers a group of women to talk about changing their lives, and the world. What follows is a necessary, messy, and bitingly funny exploration of what it means to be free, and to be a woman. In Liberation, Lizzie’s daughter steps into her mother’s memory—into the unfinished revolution she once helped ignite—and searches the past to find the answer for herself.
"I was interested in the Women's Liberation movement because my own mother was very active during that time. She worked at Ms. magazine when I was a little kid, and it's a time that was very formative for me," Wohl told BroadwayWorld. "I wanted to put that in conversation with right now, my life now, and find connective tissue, but also talk about where things are very different now than they were in the 1970s."
In this video, watch as Wohl breaks down her words in the newest episode of BroadwayWorld's Notes on a Script and go inside opening night!
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