"It tells the story of a daughter trying to find answers about her mother's life as a way of trying to understand her own life,"
"It's funny. It's about female friendship and laughter and pain. It's also political and responds in a lot of ways to the moment we live in today by looking at the past."
"I want the next generation of women to see this play and say 'Yes, if we come together, we can change the world,'"
"I think women have always been the strongest source of social change."
Liberation centers on a present-day narrator who reconstructs her mother's 1970s radical life in Ohio by interviewing and embodying women from a consciousness-raising group. The ensemble is multi-generational and multi-ethnic, with characters who listen, laugh, and seek change while confronting internal tensions when a man threatens their unity. The play blends humor, friendship, pain, and political reflection, linking past activism to contemporary debates over women's rights and reactionary 'trad wife' discourse. Premiering off-Broadway and moving to Broadway's James Earl Jones Theatre on Oct. 8, the production elicited tears and hope, emphasizing collective action as a force for social change.
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