How I Learned to Drive (Acting Edition for Theater Productions)

Paula Vogel; Vogel, Paula

ISBN 10: 082221623X / ISBN 13: 9780822216230

Published by Dramatists Play Service, 2026

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Synopsis:

Chronicles the relationship between Li'l Bit and Uncle Peck through a series of flashbacks as it progresses from friendship to something darker during a series of driving lessons.

Review: "How I Learned to Drive is one of the best plays of the decade." (USA Today)

"With subtle humor and teasing erotic encounters, Vogel addresses the dangerous intersections of teenage temptation. She also paints a richly poetic and picturesque landscape...The play is a potent and convincing comment on a taboo subject, and its impact sneaks up on its audience." (Variety)

“How I Learned to Drive is a tremendous achievement, genuine and genuinely disturbing...This is, quite simply, the sweetest and most forgiving play ever written about child abuse...Vogel’s delicate tactic makes sense not only as a way to redouble the dramatic effect, but as a representation of reality, a perfect case of the form fitting the subject.” (Village Voice)

"The play is steeped in a gentle lyricism we associate with nostalgic portraits of American youth. The tone, the setting, the characters seem at first so familiar, so, well, normal, that it’s only by degrees that we sense the poison within the pastels. By then we feel both locked into, and complicit with, this portrait of a warping relationship. That’s the art of Drive." (New York Times)

Bibliographic Details

Title: How I Learned to Drive (Acting Edition for ...
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service
Publication Date: 2026
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: good