It can be challenging to deliver something fresh and unique to the memory play genre. However, in writer Bess Wohl ‘s new Broadway show, “ Liberation ,” she manages to do just that.

Directed by Whitney White , “Liberation” is set in the 1970s and in the present. In the years following the Civil Rights Movement, shepherded by Black Americans, women were fighting to find an equal place in society. Now, a half-century later, the American government is clawing back several hard-earned wins. Bridging the time periods, “Liberation” addresses what was and who we’ve become as a society.

The play opens in the present day. A woman ( Susannah Flood ) is grieving the loss of her mom, Lizzie (also portrayed by Flood), while trying to reconcile the traditional wife and mother she knew with t

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