Heidi Schreck is giving new meaning to political theater.
IT’S OFTEN SAID that the upside of dark times is that they produce great art. “I would much prefer to have bad art and live in good times,” says the writer and actor Heidi Schreck. Coming from her, this assertion is a bit rich—and Schreck knows it, laughing at her own words. We’re meeting at a café near Manhattan’s Helen Hayes Theater, where her extraordinary play,, has been holding audiences rapt, both a critical and word-of-mouth hit.
Over the last two-plus years—not uncoincidentally the span of the 45th presidency—the show has migrated from a tiny downtown theater to California’s Berkeley Rep to Broadway, with the latest production earning Schreck an Obie award for Best New American Play and twonominations. As boisterous and open-hearted offstage as she is on, Schreck can’t suppress a watery reddening of her eyes as she considers the impact that her show has had.
A de facto one-woman production, with only a couple of strategically timed walk-ons by other performers, it finds Schreck doing aloud what many of us have, of late, been doing in the privacy of our own minds: questioning the bedrock assumptions that we have long held dear about the United States of America. In the play, the 47-year-old Schreck reconsiders her childhood as an oratorical prodigy from Wenatchee, Washington, who won speaking competitions by exalting the U.S. Constitution.
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