How I Learned To Drive
by Paula Vogel
Director: Oliver Gerland

University Theatre, Mainstage
Nov. 6-8, 12-15 at 7:30pm
Matinee Nov. 16 at 2:00pm

October 15,  2008 – Boulder, Colorado – University of Colorado,  Department of Theatre and Dance is proud to present Paula Vogel’s Pulitzer-winning play “How I Learned to Drive.”

A comedy filled with anguish, “How I Learned to Drive” challenges our definitions of family love and romantic love, blurring the boundaries between right and wrong. With no clear victim or villain, it is a terrible, wonderful love story that portrays driving as a rite of passage from childish dependence to the promise of adulthood.

The main characters of the play are a young woman nicknamed Li’l Bit and her driving teacher Uncle Peck, a World War II veteran who shows far more than a proper interest in his young niece. The story follows Li’l Bit from the age of 11 to thirty-something, jumping forward and back with scenes from home, school, and the automobile.

Ultimately, the heroine’s most impressive triumph is her decision not to demonize the man who preyed upon her, but rather to look back on him with empathy and forgiveness.

Directed by Oliver Gerland and presented by the students at the University of Colorado at Boulder, tickets for this production are now on sale.