![]() Peck touches and kisses Li’l Bit’s breasts, though she is reluctant and especially aware that she has an important day at school the following day. She and Peck are in Peck’s car on a dark lane in Maryland. Explaining that “sometimes to tell a secret, you first have to teach a lesson,” she introduces the first flashback, which takes place in 1969 when she is seventeen. The play opens with the present-day Li’l Bit setting the scene. ![]() An official-sounding voice marks the transition between the scenes, using the kind of headings found in driving instruction. Other than the two characters already mentioned, the play employs three “Greek choruses”- teenage, female, and male-to jump between the roles of a wide range of people that populate Li’l Bit’s recollections. ![]() The play works in a non-linear way, using flashbacks, monologues and a heightened sense of the surreal to show how Li’l Bit relates to her memory and trauma. How I Learned to Drive tells the story of Li’l Bit, now a woman of around thirty-five years, coming to terms with the abusive and emotionally complex relationship that she had with her Uncle Peck. ![]()
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