![]() ![]() 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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