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laywright Heidi Schreck (pictured right) was a plucky teen from the Apple Capital of the World—Wenatchee, Washington—when she stormed across the country winning enough constitutional debates to fund her University of Oregon tuition. Schreck is all grown up now, but we meet that 15-year-old when the curtain rises on , the Broadway hit that comes to Los Angeles’s’s Maria Dizzia, Schreck the character teeters between her adolescent and adult selves to deliver a speech pitting the hope of our founding document against its shortcomings—in particular, how it’s failed the women in her family. By making the political personal, and ending on a debate with a teen actor over whether to abolish the Constitution, Schreck the dramatist invites us to consider how we wound up in this American moment and what it means for the next generation.