‘How I Learned to Drive’ Pulitzer Winning Drama in Bangalore

‘How I Learned to Drive’ Pulitzer Winning Drama

EFT Report, Bangalore: A Pulitzer Prize winning play, ‘How I Learned to Drive’ is a story on the damage damaged people can do.

Families tend to shape and scar us in equal measure. With wry humor and biting insight, playwright Paula Vogel poses adult-themed questions in a lyrical fashion that is sometimes funny, sometimes shocking, but always poignant.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, How I Learned to Drive takes the audience on a complex emotional journey through the childhood of Li`l Bit, as she recounts her struggles growing up in a family of colorful characters and dark secrets.

Set in the 1960s in rural Maryland, the story follows the strained, sexual relationship between Li`l Bit and her Uncle Peck. Using the metaphor of driving and issues of incest and pedophilia, the play explores the ideas of control and manipulation.

Li`l Bit`s relationship with her Uncle Peck is as sweet as it is lethal, as paternal as it is codependent, as innocent as it is dark. With razor-sharp skill, Vogel takes us to places we`ve traveled in our past and puts our collective definitions of love, care and family to the test. It`s a play you`ll be debating long after the lights fade.

Date & Time:

March 22, 2013; 8 pm
March 23, 2013; 5 pm & 8 pm

Venue: Alliance Francaise, P.B. 108 Thimmaiah Road,Opp.UNI Building Vasanthnagar, Bangalore, 560052

Tickets: Rs 150

Language: English

Director: Siddarth Selvaraj

Writer: Paula Vogel

Length: 1 hr 30 mins

Cast & Crew: Mario Jerome, Shubangi Sunder, Maliha Ibrahim, Naomi Menon, Sudhir Selvaraj

Genre: Play