What the Constitution Means to Me (Broadway) NYC Reviews and Tickets
Show-Score Member Reviews (408)
See it if You enjoy a well-done (essentially) one-woman show that will encourage your understanding of this document that is of such import.
Don't see it if You don't favor thoughtful shows that are laced with humor and insight.
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See it if you want to think long after you leave the theatre.
Don't see it if you aren't interested in history as it relates to females. you don't want to be moved.
See it if You want insight into the constitution and the role it has played throughout history and how it can affect anyone.
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See it if you want to see the most radical piece of theatre the Broadway stage has seen in some time. It is timely & incredibly immediate.
Don't see it if you do not want to think or be moved at the theatre.
See it if You’re a person. There. That’s you. You should go see this.
Don't see it if You hate women or minorities or think white men should be the boss of everyone. Read more
See it if You enjoy shows that tie together the personal and the political, and/or you enjoy dramedy memoir-style pieces.
Don't see it if You don’t like one-person shows.
See it if to witness a powerful one woman show that will teach you, engage you, make you laugh & cry & send you home to read the Constitution.
Don't see it if Honestly, I think everyone should see it. Don't think it's going to be a history lesson. It's autobiographical drama w/history woven in.
Critic Reviews (46)
"Art can make a difference, it can improve you. But what does it take? Brutal honesty and plenty of facts. Schreck provides both in abundance—along with natural charisma and loads of humor. The piece is a model of how a playwright-performer can use the memoir-monologue and electrify it within a harrowing historical context...This ingenious play keeps peeling away its layers, to reveal a blood-chilling core truth: The Constitution isn’t here to protect you."
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"It would be hard to identify a work for the theater with its finger more cogently and rewardingly on the pulse of America right now...The endearingly funny evening...puts you contentedly in mind of one of our inalienable rights: the pursuit of happiness...Schreck is key to the play’s advanced level of enchantment. It’s her self-effacing buoyancy that sustains the piece, even at the few moments when it teeters on the brink of excessive digression."
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"With Tracy-Flick pluck, she dives into an energetic civics lesson. And soon, she springboards from the Ninth and 14th Amendments to talk about the women in her family, and about herself in the most personal terms...It’s no small achievement to eke laughs out of that material, but Schreck certainly does, her humor swinging from self-deprecating to the can-you-believe-these-guys variety...It is shaggily structured, but also original, which is to be celebrated."
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"Singularly charming, politically urgent, and cathartically necessary...A delightfully free-form theatrical experience. This unconventional work is a hybrid creation, part play, part performance piece. The production, directed by Oliver Butler, brings into frolicsome dialogue an adult woman’s consciousness of contemporary fractured America with a youthful idealism that valiantly refuses to concede defeat...It personalizes the theatrical discussion in a powerfully emotional way."
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"A unique theatrical gem...You might be thinking the show is more like a high school civics class. I can guarantee it is not. And while it's somewhat disjointed, you're bound to learn a lot. The bottom line is that Schreck is highly entertaining, all the while engaging us with equal measures of humor and pathos."
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"Schreck seems to float above time and space as she re-creates and rewrites her past...She also blasts through the artificial boundaries of form as she effortlessly gambols between memory play, confessional monologue, and political debate...Schreck is seriously funny, conveying her text with breathless charisma and a sunburst of a smile...Butler's production showcases Schreck's singular presence and helps us connect with her perspective through well-chosen visuals."
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"Schreck's inescapably truthful, yet eventually hopeful autobiographical performance piece...The author plays her 15-year-old self, delivering a reconstructed version of the long-lost speech and responding to questions regarding the Fourteenth Amendment, with her present-day self, now in her 40s, adding her more experienced views...It's all an extraordinary balance of historical fact, legal analysis and personal experience presented with a warm, conversational tone."
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"Quite a hodgepodge: part history lesson, part political analysis, part debate, part personal story, part feminist screed, and part meltdown. There is, in short, a lot going on, and it's not always easy to take, especially during those times when you may feel as though you are being lectured at...She connects with the audience with so much authenticity, it's sometimes easy to forget she's not making things up on the spot. Call it scripted spontaneity."
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