Berkeley Rep
Roda Theatre, 2025 Addison St, Berkeley CA 94704
Friday, November 13 @ 8 PM
Special UC Berkeley Grad Student Price: $15 (you may bring one guest @ guest price)
***Postshow discussion***
By Bess Wohl
Directed by Whitney White
A co-production with Geffen Playhouse, Studio Theatre, and American Repertory Theater
West Coast premiere
It’s 1970s Ohio, and Lizzie has gathered a group of women in a rec center basement to change their lives and maybe the world. Decades later, Lizzie’s daughter delves into her mother’s history to find answers to the feminist revolution’s unanswered questions, reliving those necessary, messy, and impassioned meetings that asked: What does it mean for a woman to be free? Direct from its acclaimed Broadway run, Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winner Bess Wohl (Grand Horizons) and two-time Tony Award-nominated director Whitney White (Jaja’s African Hair Braiding) bring ferocious wit and emotional precision to this intensely relevant and bitingly funny memory play about what we inherit, what we forget, and what we’re still fighting to understand.
“An unadulterated pleasure. Powerfully moving and funny. When these women talk, we want to hear every word.” — Critic’s Pick, The New York Times
**Production information: Phone- and camera-free: To protect the privacy of our performers, this production is phone- and camera-free. Upon arrival, devices must be powered off and locked in secure Yondr pouches. Guests maintain possession of their phones for the duration of the performance. All pouches will be opened at the end of the performance.