#never stop fighting

Bess Wohl, playwright, LIBERATION Best Play Tony speech, 2026

I went from bleeding myself into another dimension to a truck rushing towards me fast than I could move, I thought i’d be flattened out like a pancake but that same light that had blinded me was the same sun staring back at me and creating spots in my vision. It was beautiful. The air didn’t feel suffocating anymore, my body was experiencing this constant state of dread. I didn’t feel like it was hopeless. All I felt was the heat from the sun pouring down on my skin, all I felt was beautiful. All I saw around me in that patchy grass and windy trees was beauty, a beauty that brought tears to my eyes.

People don't like to employ people willing to assert themselves too much, maybe to the point that they occasionally bite the hand that feeds them, and don't fart perfume and glitter on command. But that makes me wonder what's gonna happen if I don't find a way to not need to be paid by assholes. I don't want to get to a point where I repress for the rest of my life. To me that's defeat, and I'll say it, a dishonourable kind of defeat. I don't ever want to get to a point where I've struggled and done the grind only to end up exactly like the kind of people I hate. It's been my point back before college and it's still my point now even if it's more difficult when you're an employed adult. The only way for me is to keep fighting until I find another way, a permanent exit strategy from labour.

"Trump threatens and investigates his political opponents—Democrats and Republicans," he said. "He says, in violation of the Constitution, that he has 'the right to do anything [he] wants.' Is there one Republican who has the guts to stand up to this rapid movement toward authoritarianism?"

Progressive veterans organization VoteVets made a similar point in its own criticism of Trump.