On the cusp of the 2024 American presidential election, a moving, engaging and very funny production of the play is making its Canadian debut in Toronto
Amy Rutherford and Damien Atkins in What the Constitution Means to Me. A Soulpepper Theatre & Nightwood Theatre Co-Production, in association with Necessary Angel Theatre Company & Talk is Free Theatre.Amy Rutherford has strolled up to the stage through the seated house. She’s wearing an optimistic butter-coloured blazer, radiating an appropriately American-feeling confidence and charm. She addresses the audience directly, speaking through a smile.
Rutherford resurrects Schreck’s 1986 prize-winning speech and the young self who loved the American Constitution so passionately, she called it “a living, warm-blooded, steamy document” and a “crucible,” which she explains is “a pot in which you put many different ingredients and boil them together until they transform into something else. Something that is sometimes magical.”
Rutherford’s performance is compassionate and sharp, making space for the audience to settle into the emotionally intense aspects of Schreck’s work, and inviting them to consider the effects of constitutional law on real American people. In American productions, Schreck ends by debating whether to keep or abolish the Constitution with a high-schooler. In Soulpepper’s adaptation, Rutherford debates Gabriella King, a brilliant 17-year-old with impeccable comedic timing, about the Canadian
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