UPDATE Friday, March 13: this event has been suspended until at least the end of March. Contact the box office for further information about exchanges or refunds.
What is it like playing someone you know?
There are actual teen debaters in the show who join you in debating the Constitution in the second half. What do you think it’s been like for them?
I remember how it felt to do that, to have memorized a speech or to have written my own speech and be delivering it for the first time. You learn a little bit of oration. Just like Heidi worked with her parents, I worked with my parents. I remember things I learned in my English class to incorporate them into my speech, like the anaphora in Mark Antony’s funeral speech in Julius Caesar—”and Brutus is an honorable man.”
How much did you have to bone up on the Constitution? And do you have a favorite amendment now?
Through 4/12: Tue 7:30 PM, Wed 2 and 7:30 PM, Thu-Fri 7:30 PM, Sat 2 and 8 PM, Sun 2 and 7:30 PM; Wed 3/18 and 4/1, 7:30 PM only; Sun 3/15, 3/29, and 4/12, 2 PM only, Broadway Playhouse, 835 N. Michigan, 800-775-2000, broadwayinchicago.com, $30-$85.
