On any given evening, as the lights illuminate Act 2 of Bess Wohl’s intergenerational Broadway play, Liberation, a distinctive sound fills the theatre: supportive cheers and applause erupt from the audience, often before a single word has been spoken.
This spontaneous burst of appreciation, or perhaps solidarity, is a direct response to one of Broadway’s bolder scenes this season. On stage, six characters, members of a makeshift 1970s consciousness-raising group, strip naked for a 15-minute dialogue.
