As a kid, Heidi Schreck loved the Constitution.
From age 15 she competed in oratory contests on the topic at American Legion halls.
Young Heidis speeches won her prize money that paid for her college education.
Credit: Joan Marcus
Shes gotten over it.
With Tracy-Flick pluck, she dives into an energetic civics lesson.
Why, she now wonders, have these legal protections done so little to protect women?
Of her grandmother and mother, who survived domestic abuse.
Of the abortion she had to keep secret.
Antonin Scalia, notes Schreck, ultimately decided that shall did not mean must.
Which is confusing because Scalia was a devout Catholic.
Her tangents have tangents.
Like the object of its affection,What the Constitution Means To Meis imperfect.
Is she making it up as she goes along?
Hey, do the 25th!or Lets hear the Second!
(Thats the one invoked for impeachment, and the one that protects the right to bear arms.)
The only other person on stage is the unnamed American Legion officer.
In that supporting role, Mike Iveson evokes Dana Carvey doing George H.W.
Bush just the right amount of silly earnestness.
That is until he, too, breaks the fourth wall to tell us a story about Mike Iveson.
This may be to give Schreck a break during the show, which is 100 minutes with no intermission.
While Iveson has an emotional tale, the diversion doesnt make sense.
