While Not Explicitly Autobiographical, ‘Liberation’ Finds Playwright Bess Wohl Making Use of a Childhood ‘Infused With Second-Wave Feminism’
‘Liberation’ focuses less on the enormous progress that has been made in terms of how women can live, work, and love — in our country, certainly, and in much of the world — than on past injustices and remaining challenges.
Can women have it all — that is, a rewarding career and a fulfilling personal life? It’s a question that’s posed relentlessly, with the assumption generally being that the personal life would involve a spouse or significant other and, optimally, children.
By these standards, Bess Wohl, a Yale School of Drama-trained actress turned award-winning playwright, would seem to present a major success story. Married and with three kids, she has had plays produced on Broadway and off — among them the Tony-nominated “Grand Horizons” and the widely acclaimed “Small Mouth Sounds” and “Make Believe” — as well as in regional theater and London; she has also written for television.
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