Perspective: She’s a playwright. He’s a scholar. Their mutual admiration was ordained and established by the Constitution.
Constitutional scholar Laurence Tribe speaks with"What the Constitution Means to Me" playwright and star Heidi Schreck backstage at the Helen Hayes Theater in New York. By Peter Marks Peter Marks Theater critic Email Bio Follow Theater critic April 11 NEW YORK — Last fall, Laurence Tribe fell headlong into love. Legalistic love, that is.
The Helen Hayes Theater, where"What the Constitution Means to Me" is playing in New York. “I was ecstatic,” the 77-year-old scholar said of the play. Tribe, the author of the seminal legal textbook “American Constitutional Law,” is such a sought-after authority on democracy-building that he helped write constitutions for the Czech Republic, South Africa and the Marshall Islands.
“What the Constitution Means to Me,” directed by Oliver Butler and featuring a second actor, Mike Iveson, as a contest proctor, is a vehicle by which Schreck, author of the play “Grand Concourse” and a writer on Showtime’s “Billions,” takes us to places both light and dark. It’s a funny re-creation of her participation in one of these contests, in her hometown of Wenatchee, Wash.
That case is one that Schreck cites as a way of cuing her audience in to her own sense of tragic injustice, and though she and Tribe share a reverence for much of the document, they also share sadness over how courts have sometimes interpreted it. “The Constitution itself is a trail of tears,” Tribe said at the restaurant. “If you look at all the atrocities perpetrated in its name.”
On the night we met, the performance required no urgent gathering of herself. In our section of the theater, the professor caused a bit of a stir among those who recognized him. He’s a frequent presence these days on cable news networks, where he sometimes talks about his latest book, “To End a Presidency: The Power of Impeachment.
The same can be said of how the play itself is received each night. “It changes,” Schreck said. “And what the audience brings in changes, too.”
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