Heidi Schreck’s shrewd civics lesson is all about human rights and wrongs Theater review by Kris Vire Maria Dizzia What a week to see What the Constitution Means to Me. Heidi Schreck’s sort-of-solo play, about her real-life teenage years debating the Constitution at American Legion halls for scholarship money and her more complicated feelings about the foundational document now, has followed a well-deserved but unlikely path through the American theater. It premiered less than three years ago in an 89-seat theater in New York’s East Village, part of Clubbed Thumb’s 2017 Summerworks festival; was picked up for runs at Berkeley Rep and New York Theatre Workshop in 2018; and moved to Broadway in 2019, earning Tony nominations for best play and best actress and becoming a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama.
SR review: “What the Constitution Means to Me”
SR review: “What the Constitution Means to…
SR review: “What the Constitution Means to Me”
Heidi Schreck’s shrewd civics lesson is all about human rights and wrongs Theater review by Kris Vire Maria Dizzia What a week to see What the Constitution Means to Me. Heidi Schreck’s sort-of-solo play, about her real-life teenage years debating the Constitution at American Legion halls for scholarship money and her more complicated feelings about the foundational document now, has followed a well-deserved but unlikely path through the American theater. It premiered less than three years ago in an 89-seat theater in New York’s East Village, part of Clubbed Thumb’s 2017 Summerworks festival; was picked up for runs at Berkeley Rep and New York Theatre Workshop in 2018; and moved to Broadway in 2019, earning Tony nominations for best play and best actress and becoming a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama.