The Tony-Nominated Play That Savages the U.S. Constitution

This post contains mild spoilers for What the Constitution Means to Me.

At the start of the Tony-nominated play What the Constitution Means to Me, the writer and performer Heidi Schreck bounds cheerfully onto the stage wearing a sunny smile and a cupcake-yellow blazer. She then proceeds to savage the revered, 232year-old text on which the U.S. was built. The play is never more electrifying than when Schreck’s charisma curdles into fury over how the entire American legal framework has rendered women’s lives worthless.