| "What the Constitution Means To Me" Yesterday (Spoilers) | |
| Last Edit: student_rush 01:47 pm EST 12/27/18 | |
| Posted by: student_rush 01:43 pm EST 12/27/18 | |
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| I don't understand what this is or what it wants to be. None of the framing or conceits are constant ... it isn't narrative theatre, it isn't storytelling, but rather if a Buzzfeed article came to life, snorted adderall, and screamed at you for 100 interminable minutes. The horrible framing of a memory play from her childhood is completely abandoned about halfway through for no reason, and we, like, kind of come back to it at the end? No sense of time or space outside her performance, which does not hold up to scrutiny and may have been helped if Butler jazzed up some of the stepping in and out of her fifteen year-old self. Who is her audience at any given time - the old men from the VA halls or us, the real audience? And does it ever matter? Schreck is either in nonstop frenetic mode or these gross displays of performative grief. She often will stop to gather her thoughts, overcome by emotion ... in a play she wrote. And performs eight times a week. And has worked on for ten years. Give me a break. It's masturbatory and often completely stops any sense of momentum. Again, it's confusing that Bulter allows her to have such indulgent moments of "emotion" while simultaneously uptown his "Thom Pain" I found to be streamlined and cutting, veering from any unnecessary sentimentality or tropes of a solo show. All these tropes, by the way, are on full display at the Greenwich House Theatre. Every cliche about solo performances is found in "What the Constitution Means To Me." Funny enough, at dinner before the show we overheard the table near us discussing another yet-to-be-announced transfer of this play. For the life of me, I can't understand why anyone would put money into this ... what model are they following? Mike Birbiglia - a famous monologist and comedian - is having his own troubles filling a Broadway house. So why would anyone think that a non-celebrity would attract audiences to the story of her non-famous life ... oh, and did we mention it's about the United States Constitution? I fell asleep halfway through writing that sentence. |
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