![]() ![]() ![]() Vogels unlikely inspiration for the play was Humbert. It tells the story of Lil Bit and her Uncle Peck through early adolescence to post-college and uses learning to drive as a metaphor for their inappropriate sexual relationship. Hence, with one foot on the gas pedal on thin ice, they learn something that will change their lives for ever: that the person that has the power to destroy us and the one that has the power to improve us are very often the same person. American playwright Paula Vogel received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her 1997 play, How I Learned to Drive. “When your breaks don’t work on ice, you‘ll have to accelerate,” he says to her in one of their driving lessons. ![]() The disjunctive “or” is the tricky point upon which we have all stepped at some point in our lives: a love that is incompatible with reality, the thin ice that is ready to break under the weight of a single mistake. The one can either save “or” destroy the other. He is a 40-year-old alcoholic, the husband of her aunt, she is an underage seeking to fill in the gaps left open by her absent father. Two people that believe that they don’t belong anywhere become lovers in the environment of a dysfunctional family. ![]() Paula Vogel’s play, awarded with the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, brings us confronted with the limits of morality. 2014-2015 National Theatre of Northern Greece How I learned to Drive - Paula Vogel ![]()
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