Bess Wohl didn’t intend for Liberation to be about quite so many things — it just happened to turn out that way. “It’s actually a big play,” she says of her show, which began performances Oct. 8 at Broadway’s James Earl Jones Theatre. “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,” she adds. “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.”

The show, which mostly takes place in 1970s Ohio, begins in the present day, with the narrator (Susannah Flood) attempting to recreate a past she never knew — a time when her mother lived as a radical before transitioning into a costume-sewing homemake

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