Thank you Barbara Kerr and the Desert Sun for your article about our upcoming play WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME, opening January 19 through January 28th.
Barbara writes about Robyn Cohen’s audition, “We had this almost hour-long callback/interview/conversation about this play, and how our lives are entwined with the idea of this play, and about our personal stories and connections with various laws and amendments that have passed and that have not passed,” she said. “And it was just this incredible dialogue, which led to an offer to do the play.” To Cohen, it felt like “a date with destiny.” She was so excited that she began memorizing the play even before she accepted the demanding role. The play is performed without an intermission. The actor portraying Heidi never leaves the stage.
Director Craig Wells said, “It’s smart in a way that is accessible. It’s smart in a way that makes you laugh. It’s the personal side of Heidi’s life that she continually brings into the piece in conjunction with the Constitution.”
Cohen added that “the truth of what she’s talking about is so profound and so resonating that people in the audiences, I think, are going to come to see this play and, in many ways, feel less alone in their own journeys.”
“These ideas relate to every person in this country,” she added. “It’s the story of this one woman, but it’s so specific and so deep and so heartfelt that this story really does become universal.”