What the Constitution Means to Me
by Heidi Schreck

Name: What the Constitution Means to Me
Brand: Heidi Schreck
SKU: 9780573709371
Rating: 4.29 (10 reviews)

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Highlights

Female

Male

90 minsPresent DayStrong Role for Leading Woman (Star Vehicle)Interior SetContemporary Costumes/Street ClothesComedy

Awards & Recognition

Drama Critics CircleDrama Desk AwardObie AwardPulitzer PrizeTony Award

Finalist: 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Winner! 2019 Obie Award, Best New American Play Winner! 2019 New York Drama Critics' Circle Award, Best American Play Winner! 2019 Off-Broadway Alliance Award, Best New Play Nominee: Two 2019 Tony Awards, including Best Play Nominee: Two 2019 Drama Desk Awards, including Outstanding Play

What readers are saying

Readers highly appreciate the engaging and thought-provoking nature of the play, especially its examination of the U.S. Constitution through a personal lens. Many find its blend of humor and serious themes to be powerful, stating that it is better experienced live rather than read. The audience participation and unique debate format are particularly praised, though some note a sense of superficiality in parts of the content.

Thought-provoking and engagingUnique audience participationPowerful mix of humor and seriousnessOccasionally superficial in content

Synopsis

What the Constitution Means to Me; An acclaimed play tracing the effect that the US Constitution has had on four generations of women in the author's family.

A finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

Press Reviews

"Endearingly funny and deeply affecting... It would be hard to identify a work for the theater with its finger more on the pulse of America right now."
— Peter Marks, The Washington Post

"Uproariously funny, wrenchingly moving, critically challenging and politically inspiring."
— David Cole, The New York Review of Books

"A charming and incisive analysis of gender and racial biases inherent to the U.S. Constitution that examines how this living document could evolve to fit modern America."
— 2019 Pulitzer Prize Committee

"What the Constitution Means to Me is one of the things we always say we want theater to be: an act of civic engagement. It restarts an argument many of us forgot we even needed to have."
— Jesse Green, The New York Times

"Heidi Schreck's fiercely urgent and soul-restoring What the Constitution Means to Me keeps uncannily in step with the times."
— David Cote, The Observer