What could be more a timely topic for inauguration week than the US Constitution? But this isn’t any old patriarchal take on our country’s founding document. This week on All Ears Abby talks to playwright and actor Heidi Schreck, creator of Tony-nominated Broadway hit, “What The Constitution Means To Me”. In the play, Heidi reflects back on her teenage experience as an award-winning orator, traveling the country to compete with other teens on the topic of the US Constitution. If anyone ever had a mad crush on a document, it was 15 year old Heidi. But she also looks at it as an adult woman, processing the generational trauma of domestic abuse in her family, and the impact of how our laws have been historically interpreted through the lens of the values and biases of the landowning white men who wrote it. Though Abby and Heidi grapple with our nation’s historical sins and its uncertain future, you will come out the other side of this lively conversation with a spark of optimism. Much like Inauguration 2021! 

Follow Heidi on Twitter @HeidiBSchreck


EPISODE LINKS

• What The Constitution Means To Me | Amazon Prime Video
• The American Legion Oratorical Contest (The American Legion)
• What The Constitution Means To Me's Heidi Schreck On Releasing The Movie During Another Supreme Court Battle (Slate)
• Coronavirus In New York: Some Women Must Face Childbirth Alone (LA Times)
• Griswold v. Connecticut (Oyez.com)
• Castle Rock v. Gonzalez (Oyez.com)