Gustav Schreck News
German composer, music educator, and choirmaster
- chamber music, oratorio, religious music
- Principality of Reuss-Gera
- composer, choir director, conductor, musicologist, music teacher, university teacher
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ArtsJournal: music
2021-01-19 19:04:00
How Did American Theater Deal With The Trump Era? Urgently
“For the most part, it didn’t aim straight at the president. … Rather, producers elevated formally adventurous, politically incendiary plays — like Heidi Schreck’s What the Constitution Means to Me and Jeremy O. Harris’s Slave Play — that spoke meaningfully to our nation’s troubled soul. Audiences, hungering for that holiest of dramatic experiences, catharsis, used […]
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ArtsJournal: music
2020-11-17 20:03:14
Political Theater Moves Into Nonfiction — Is It Drama Or Seminar?
Heidi Schreck’s What the Constitution Means to Me has become “the grandmother of [a] genre” that includes, just this fall, Kristina Wong for Public Office (about Wong’s run for a local commission in Los Angeles), Lessons in Survival (actors repeating, complete with pauses and tics, observations of prominent Black Americans about society), Denis O’Hare’s What […]
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ArtsJournal: music
2020-10-18 19:30:35
Heidi Schreck, Playwright Of ‘What The Constitution Means To Me,’ Interviews One Of Its Inspirations, Norman Lear
Schreck met Lear backstage at an oratory contest when she was 15, and he had just given a speech called “The Constitution and Me.” Lear, who’s 98: “It’s hard to believe, as we talk now, that people aren’t gathering to go to the theater. That we’re living in a time where all of that is […]
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ArtsJournal: music
2019-08-29 15:02:45
The Atlantic’s Takedown Of ‘What The Constitution Means To Me’
Staff writer Andrew Ferguson: “By play’s end, it’s become clear that if the young [Heidi] Schreck did indeed love the Constitution, it’s because she misunderstood it; and if her passion for the document has cooled as she’s gotten older, it’s because she’s transcended her earlier misunderstanding to misunderstand it even more.” – The Atlantic
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