The Playbill of Rights

Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen

PRX

Arts

4.6 • 675 Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Kurt Andersen talks with Heidi Schreck about her new play, based on oratory competitions she took part in as a teenager, called “What the Constitution Means to Me.” Siblings Elan and Jonathan Bogarín join Kurt to talk about their new documentary “306 Hollywood,” an artful and even surreal look at how they dealt with their beloved grandmother’s house after she died. How Niki Russ Federman meant to stay out of her family’s smoked fish business, Russ & Daughters, and then found herself drawn in by klezmer music. And how Broadway productions are hosting special performances that take into account some of the heightened sensitivities and needs of audience members who are autistic.

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0:00.0	From PRX
0:03.4	This is Studio 360.
0:09.9	I'm Kurt Aniston, and I'm sitting on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
0:12.9	This first level of garden.
0:14.3	This is Thomas Jefferson's vegetable garden.
0:16.1	I like to have the roasted chicken piece.
0:17.8	Very well done.
0:18.9	Editing is all about timing.
0:20.6	I try to get a little bit away from the actual subject.
0:23.2	You must get sick of your own voice, right?
0:25.6	Studio 360.
0:27.7	It's Kurt Anderson.
0:30.9	So when I was a teenager, my mom came to me and said,
0:35.0	I have a way for you to pay for college.
0:38.8	I said, fantastic.
0:45.9	That's Heidi Shrek, an actor and writer who grew up in the 1970s and 80s in a little town in Washington State. And she told me about this speech contest called the American Legion
0:50.4	Oratory Contest. And I loved public speaking at the time. I loved debate. I was on the
0:55.9	debate team. So I agreed to do this contest where I would travel the country giving speeches about
1:01.5	the Constitution at American Legion Halls, all over, mostly all over the Northwest and Pacific Northwest.
1:08.1	Heidi Shrek has turned that experience into a play in which she stars that's about
1:12.8	to open on Broadway. It's called What the Constitution Means to Me. In the show, she toggles between
1:20.2	her teenage self in those competitions and herself today, digging deep into the Bill of Rights
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