There are a variety of lenses through which we may see what follows. With this enigmatic line, the play begins. “Sometimes to tell a secret, you first have to teach a lesson.” The play’s method of confrontation is gentle, startling, raucous, funny, devastating and intimate. This play ventures into the uncomfortable, even explosive areas of pedophilia, molestation and hyper-sexualization, but its chief confrontation is with the Nemesis in whose shadow these diseases ferment-our Patriarchy. It’s also one of the most excellently crafted. How I learned to Driveis among the most important plays of the last 50 years. Julia Gibson as “Li’l Bit” in PlayMakers Rep’s 2019 Production of “How I Learned to Drive,” directed by Lee Sunday Evans.
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