Pulitzer Prize Winning Drama "How I Learned to Drive"

Pulitzer Prize Winning Drama How I Learned to Drive

Actor's Circle Theatre (7313 Santa Monica Blvd West Hollywood, CA 90046)

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Paula Vogel won the 1998 Pulitzer Prize, as well as the Lortel, Drama Desk, Obie, Outer Critics Circle and New York Drama Critics awards for this play. It's the story of Li'l Bit, who, busty at 13, is maturing fast. She learns how to drive and she learns about the birds and the bees from her uncle Peck, who takes advantage of her innocence by seducing her.

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Actor's Circle Theatre

7313 Santa Monica Blvd

West Hollywood, CA 90046

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"With astounding actors and sensitive direction, the Actors Circle production is a most sophisticated and stunning treatment of this sophisticated and stunning play." --Martini Republic
"Directed by Estrella Tamez, How I Learned to Drive offers more than parallel parking and lane changing. It's a play that shows small, yet isolated events that occur more often than realized. Firmly apply the breaks for a red light indeed!" --Accessibly Live

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"Li'l Bit" is maturing early. She's getting busty at thirteen, and feeling awkward about it. The play "How I Learned to Drive" deals principally with her life between ages 13 and 18. She learns how to drive. Li'l Bit also learns about her sexuality. Her principal teacher in both areas is her uncle, Peck, a bisexual pedophile with pangs of conscience. Although he touches her in ways familiar and improper, he won't propose full consummation until she's eighteen. And Li'l Bit knows it. The members of Li'l Bit's family have received nicknames suggested by their genitalia, although playwright Paula Vogel admits in production notes that she was also thinking of Atticus Finch when she created Peck. Peck conscientiously teaches Li'l Bit how to drive safely. His love for her is profound. Vogel has wrought in Peck a marvelously complex character, a man who be adjudged decent and admired in every respect, but for his sexual pathologia.
Li'l Bit is eventually on to him. Peck's wife is on to both of them.
This is essentially, though, Li'l Bit's story, and Vogel has created in her one of the richest and most appealing female protagonists in contemporary literature. As per the original production notes, some casting is done without literal regard for the characters' ages. Estrella Tamez directs. The East L.A. native graduated from New Mexico State University. She is currently theatre manager of the Actors Circle Theatre, where her acting credits include "Hermanas," "The Man Who Came to Dinner," "The Valiant," "Days of Wine and Roses," "No Exit," and more. Ms. Tamez is also a professional musician. The cast includes (in alphabetical order): Samantha Buchanan, Nancy De Mayo, Philip Ferenchick, Bill Jacobson and Emily Morrison. Paula Vogel won the 1998 Pulitzer Prize and the Lortel, Drama Desk, Obie, Outer Critics Circle , and New York Drama Critics Awards for this play. It appears in the anthology "The Mammary Plays," published by Theatre Communications Group. Her other plays include "The Baltimore Waltz," 'Hot n' Throbbing," "And Baby Makes Seven," and "The Oldest Profession," for which she is currently writing a screenplay. She is at work on a new book for a revival of the musical "On a Clear Day You Can See Forever."