It is published here for the first time as a stand-alone edition. We are happy to exchange your ticket to another date. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Paula Vogel’s How I Learned to Drive is widely recognized as a masterpiece of contemporary drama. *as always, please do not come to the theatre if you are sick. Give it enough gas to move the tachometer needle to like '1' or '2,' that is, 1000 to 2000 rpm. Begin to slowly add some gas by pushing down the gas pedal a little bit. Practice until you can get to the point quickly. For the final three weekends (June 2 – June 18) masks will be optional. Get a feel for this biting point (when the car starts to shudder a bit) because it will make learning to drive manual a lot easier. The first two weekends (May 19 – May 28) we will require our audience and all staff and volunteers to be masked. In Paula Vogels Pulitzer Prize-winning drama How I Learned to Drive (NY: Theatre Communications Group, 1998), chronologies weaving throughout three decades. Scenic Design by Eric Niece, and built by Gordon Mosley. Vogel has written a lovely, harrowing guide to the crippling persistence of one woman’s memories.” -NY Timesįeaturing Krista Schafer, Phil Hughes, Amelia Hefferon, V Martin, and Diana Turner.

Co-winner of the 1998 Lucille Lortel Award for outstanding play. Co-winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. This show has adult themes, including sexual abuse. HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE is a heartbreaking play, rippling with humor and honesty. Everything that I read in this play was new to me. From a young age, she learns that the uncle who loves you best and supports your dreams can also be the person who rips apart your childhood and abuses your trust. How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel is a coming of age tale that uses the metaphor of drivinga car to depict an incestual relationship between an uncle and his niece, Li’L Bit. Li’l Bit comes from a family where nicknames stem from genitalia, family “jokes” about body parts are common, and secrets are kept buried. How I Learned to Drive May 19 – June 18, 2023īy Paula Vogel, directed by Adriane Galea

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