Wednesday, October 11, 2017
2:00 p.m.
Godfrey Kerr Theater Studio, Lewis Arts Complex
Free and open to Princeton students, faculty & staff
Award-winning playwright, screenwriter and actor Heidi Schreck gives a salon presentation of her latest play, What The Constitution Means to Me, as part of theater professor Brian Herrera’s fall course “Autobiographical Storytelling: Princeton, Slavery and Me.”
It’s 1989 and Heidi is trying to earn enough money to go to college by giving speeches about the Constitution in American Legion Halls across the country. When she loses the first round to Becky Dobbins because her speech isn’t personal enough, she decides to go deep. Starting with her great great grandmother, a mail-order bride who died of “melancholia,” she traces the effects of a single sentence of the Ninth Amendment on generations of women in her family – and on the violent men they married.
Presented as part of Professor Brian Herrera’s “Autobiographical Storytelling: Princeton, Slavery and Me” and made possible through the support of Princeton’s Humanities Council and the Program in Theater.
