Posted on Mar 30, 2019
Staging A Debate Over 'What The Constitution Means To Me'
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Actor and playwright Heidi Schreck says her new play — What the Constitution Means to Me — is a love letter to her mother.
The Broadway play — part personal memoir, part civics town hall — recreates the constitutional debate contests Schreck attended in high school. It's an attempt, she explains, to trace her evolving understanding of the U.S. Constitution and how it relates to her life, her family, and the women in her family in particular.
Schreck says she wanted to explore "how their existence had been shaped by this document, circumscribed by this document, and, in some ways, harmed by this document."
Schreck's mother and grandmother both suffered abuse — as a teen, her mother testified against her own stepfather.
"I now fully apprehend the incredible bravery it took for her to testify against a sexual abuser at age 14," Schreck says.
The Broadway play — part personal memoir, part civics town hall — recreates the constitutional debate contests Schreck attended in high school. It's an attempt, she explains, to trace her evolving understanding of the U.S. Constitution and how it relates to her life, her family, and the women in her family in particular.
Schreck says she wanted to explore "how their existence had been shaped by this document, circumscribed by this document, and, in some ways, harmed by this document."
Schreck's mother and grandmother both suffered abuse — as a teen, her mother testified against her own stepfather.
"I now fully apprehend the incredible bravery it took for her to testify against a sexual abuser at age 14," Schreck says.
Staging A Debate Over 'What The Constitution Means To Me'
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Most Interesting... What The Constitution Means Is Fairly Simple And For The Most Part Well Defined In The Federalist Papers...
As Far As Abuse And How Its addressed...
As Long As The Elite And The Masses Continue To Accept The Conduct Of Predators And Pick And Chose Who They are Going To Throw under The Buss And At Who They Are Going To Protect IN order To Profit From...
Thanks For Info And The Share
As Far As Abuse And How Its addressed...
As Long As The Elite And The Masses Continue To Accept The Conduct Of Predators And Pick And Chose Who They are Going To Throw under The Buss And At Who They Are Going To Protect IN order To Profit From...
Thanks For Info And The Share
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The playwright states she wished to explore how "Her life, her family, and the women in her family in particular" were "shaped by this document, circumscribed by this document, and, in some ways, harmed by this document."
Perhaps the best place to begin would be to presume that the Constitution never existed. What would then result for "Her life, her family, and the women in her family in particular"?
Perhaps the best place to begin would be to presume that the Constitution never existed. What would then result for "Her life, her family, and the women in her family in particular"?
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