What the Constitution Means to Me

The importance of this film/play, cannot be overstated. Described as predictable by another rater, until change is realised fundamentally, this material needs to presented over and over and over again.

Amazing & poignant! Ms. Schreck delivers a spot on performance with grace and style.

It has been about a year since I got to watch live theater, which is WAY too long. This movie actually captures the experience pretty darn well - the voices, the audience, the energy. Schreck's show somehow takes us all on a journey through her adolescence, our nation's history, and this difficult current moment all at once. it is not a perfect film, or even really a film at all. But it is a pretty darn good play, especially if you have kids who love Hamilton and are ready for the next conversation.

From the title you can see I was misled. I kinda got it, it would be a reflection on what a young person would think about the Constitution and how it may change over time.

It is really just this lady's rant, and boiler plate Feminist complaints about how terrible history, and especially the U. S. , has treated women.

My complaint is that it falls into a very large pile of stories. We live in open and progressive times in which women are treated equally and U. S. women have more freedom of action and freedom of expression than ever in history. Indeed, far and beyond women in 90% of the planet. Artists and writers seem to find nothing to complain about in the 21st C, so they will go back and tell never-ending stories about how awful the world/U. S. used to be.

This falls into that pile.

As a piece of art? It is lecturing, it is strident, it is biased, it is unfair and many parts of it seem false. Why false? She seem to set her speech in mid-1990s? When she was 15 years old? All of the commentary is about the 1800s - turn of the century? What are her credentials/experience?? She discusses having difficulty finding birth control? In the 1990's? Her excerpts from 'her speech' are so bad and so goofy that I can't believe the premise of the show. "Heidi" didn't win any speech contest.

Also, it is a stage production. I like live drama. This has very sloppy delineation between the setting and the story/drama. Fourth Wall? It is just a rambling lecture and has little artistic presentation, nor consistent style.

It could have been better if it were shorter, if it had stuck with its setting in the Foreign Legion Contest of 1990s, and if the author/performer had presented ideas and let the audience think/respond about them- instead of telling the audience what to think.

I was surprised by this. Intelligent, witty, educational with the ability to be eye opening without being aggressively in your face. If you have 110 minutes and maybe some time to reflect, I'd highly recommend it. My surprise came from my expectation going into the show based on the trailers.