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What the Constitution Means to Me

  • Heidi Schreck
  • Full Length Play, Dramatic Comedy, Present Day, Contemporary
  • 1M, 2F
  • ISBN: 9780573709371

Heidi Schreck's hilarious, hopeful and achingly human play breathes new life into our Constitution and imagines how it will shape the next generation of Americans.

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Dramatic Comedy
  • 90 minutes

  • Time Period: Present Day, Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Teen (Age 14 - 18), Adult
  • Set Requirements: Interior Set

  • Performance Group:
  • College Theatre / Student, Community Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, Professional Theatre

  • Accolades:
  • Finalist! Pulitzer Prize (2019)
    Winner! Obie Award for Best New American Play (2019)
    Winner! New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best American Play (2019)
    Winner! Off-Broadway Alliance Award for Best New Play (2019)
    Nominee! Two Tony Awards including Best Play (2019)
    Nominee! Two Drama Desk Awards including Outstanding Play (2019)
Playwright Heidi Schreck’s boundary-breaking play breathes new life into our Constitution and imagines how it will shape the next generation of Americans. Fifteen-year-old Heidi earned her college tuition by winning Constitutional debate competitions across the United States. In this hilarious, hopeful and achingly human new play, she resurrects her teenage self in order to trace the profound relationship between four generations of women and the founding document that shaped their lives.
REVIEWS:

"Not just the best play to open on Broadway so far this season, but also the most important."

 The New York Times

"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

Premiere Production:
  • What the Constitution Means to Me premiered off-Broadway at the New York Theatre Workshop on September 12, 2018. The play opened on Broadway at the Helen Hayes Theatre on March 31, 2019. Initially announced for a 12-week engagement, the Broadway production extended twice and fully recouped its investment, shattering box office records, for a total run of 24 weeks. Following Broadway, What the Constitution Means to Me played a record-breaking limited engagement run at the Eisenhower Theater at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., as well as two sit-down engagements in Los Angeles and Chicago before halting performances due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The national tour of What the Constitution Means to Me will resume in September 2021.

    • Characters

    • Casting: 1M, 2F
    • Casting Attributes: Strong Role for Leading Woman (Star Vehicle)
    • Casting Notes: The role of the teen should be played by a female or non-binary teen actor.

  • HEIDI
    MIKE
    ROSDELY    *

    *Can be played by a non-binary teen.

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    Playwright Heidi Schreck’s boundary-breaking play breathes new life into our Constitution and imagines how it will shape the next generation of Americans. Fifteen-year-old Heidi earned her college tuition by winning Constitutional debate competitions across the United States. In this hilarious, hopeful and achingly human new play, she resurrects her teenage self in order to trace the profound relationship between four generations of women and the founding document that shaped their lives.

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