Four actors, heroes of a new society, are invited by the government to write a new Constitution. Sequestered from society. Six days. No experience in the matter. A perfect Constitution for an imperfect nation.

How do you write the perfect constitution for a new government? That’s merely one of the questions Mickaël de Oliveira’s play The Constitution asks. Perhaps even more central than the question of the constitution is the idea of love: what it means to love someone, and whether or not love can mean different things to different people. And if the answer to the latter is yes, then can a government based on love succeed? Directed by Jill DeArmon at UNDER St. Marks, The Constitution depicts four actors who have been asked to draft a constitution for the new Portuguese government. None of them know why they were chosen, and most don’t want to be there. But they have a mission to fulfill, and only six days to do it in. While trying to create a new system of government, each character finds the mission complicated by his or her past. Diogo (Diogo Martins) is a former Communist. Pedro (Pedro Carmo) worries about his children. Both Diogo and Pedro used to perform unsavory duties for the government. Meanwhile, Maria (Maria Leite) and Filipe (Filipe Valle Costa) were previously in a relationship, and their troubled romance threatens to upend the whole mission. As the four different players in …Read more