How I Learned to Drive
How I Learned to Drive Author: Paula Vogel
First Performance: 1997, New York
Published: 1998
Genre: Drama without act or scene divisions
Setting: Suburban Maryland, 1963–1990s
Cast: 2m, 3f
(The action is interrupted with advice about driving and admonitions from Li'l Bit's mother, and all parts except her and Peck are played by a ‘Greek Chorus’ of one man and a woman.) Li'l Bit grows up with her mother, grandparents, and Aunt Mary and Uncle Peck, an attractive man in his forties originally from South Carolina. When the family joke about the big bosom she is developing, only Peck shows her kindness. In flashbacks, we see her at school, already at 13 attracting attention with her full breasts. Peck photographs her young body. When she is 15, Peck begins to teach her how to drive, while she flirts with him....
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