What the Constitution Means to Me is a show with an incredible sense of timing.
The autobiographical play by and starring Heidi Schreck finds her looking back at herself at 15 — a girl who competed in American Legion debate contests about the Constitution to earn money for college, thinking it was this great, magical document.
Her upbeat teen self compares the Constitution to a witch’s cauldron, where amendments and clauses are mixed in all together and boil into something even greater. But horror lurks beyond her bright smile and A-student pep. As she grows up, adult Schreck movingly traces how, actually, this document has let down the women in her family for generations, beginning with a great-great-grandmother who was a mail order bride and died at 36 in a mental institution from “melancholia.” Read more…
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