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A woman, known to the audience only as L'il Bit, tells a story of her complicated relationship with her uncle. Uncle Peck taught Li'l Bit to drive. He also molested her, starting when she was eleven years old. [[WordOfGod According to the playwright,]] Paula Vogel, ''How I Learned to Drive'' is "a play about the gifts we receive from the people who hurt us" -- and about control and manipulation. It is possibly the most heartbreaking play about pedophilia and incest you'll ever read or see.
It won the UsefulNotes/PulitzerPrize in 1998 and was revived Off Broadway in 2012. The original cast included Creator/MaryLouiseParker as Li'l Bit and Creator/DavidMorse as Uncle Peck. The play was supposed to run on Broadway for the first time in March 2020, but that was postponed by the coronavirus pandemic, and it is now scheduled for 2022.
It won the UsefulNotes/PulitzerPrize in 1998 and was revived Off Broadway in 2012. The original cast included Creator/MaryLouiseParker as Li'l Bit and Creator/DavidMorse as Uncle Peck. The play was supposed to run on Broadway for the first time in March 2020, but that was postponed by the coronavirus pandemic, and it is now scheduled for 2022.
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A woman, known to the audience only as L'il Bit, tells a story of her complicated relationship with her uncle. Uncle Peck taught Li'l Bit to drive. He also molested her, starting when she was eleven years old. [[WordOfGod According to Vogel herself]], the playwright,]] Paula Vogel, ''How I Learned to Drive'' is "a play about is "about the gifts we receive from the people who hurt us" -- and about control and manipulation. It is possibly the most heartbreaking play work about pedophilia and incest you'll ever read or see.
It won The play premiered off-Broadway in 1997, with the UsefulNotes/PulitzerPrize in 1998 and was revived Off Broadway in 2012. The original cast included led by Creator/MaryLouiseParker as Li'l Bit and Creator/DavidMorse as Uncle Peck. It won the UsefulNotes/PulitzerPrize the following year, and was revived, again off-Broadway, in 2012. The play was supposed to run on Broadway for the first time (with Parker and Morse reprising their roles) in March 2020, but that was postponed by the coronavirus pandemic, and it is now scheduled for 2022.COVID-19 pandemic delayed the production 2022.
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* FreudianExcuse: Hinted at. Li'l Bit guesses that Uncle Peck may himself have been abused as a child, saying near the end, "Who did it to you, Uncle Peck? How old were you? Were you eleven?" There's also a suggestion that Uncle Peck may be a ShellShockedVeteran; he refuses to talk about anything he saw or did during World War II except to say that he served in the Pacific Theater.
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A woman, known to the audience only as L'il Bit, tells a story of her complicated relationship with her uncle. Uncle Peck taught Li'l Bit to drive, as well as a few other things. [[WordOfGod According to the playwright,]] Paula Vogel, ''How I Learned to Drive'' is "a play about the gifts we receive from the people who hurt us" -- and about control and manipulation. It is possibly the most heartbreaking play about pedophilia and incest you'll ever read or see.
A woman, known to the audience only as L'il Bit, tells a story of her complicated relationship with her uncle. Uncle Peck taught Li'l Bit to drive, as well as a few other things. [[WordOfGod According to the playwright,]] Paula Vogel, ''How I Learned to Drive'' is "a play about the gifts we receive from the people who hurt us" -- and about control and manipulation. It is possibly the most heartbreaking play about pedophilia and incest you'll ever read or see.
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* AnachronicOrder: The narrative loosely follows Li'l Bit through her middle school years through her freshman year of college, but it bounces around quite a bit on the way. In the middle of the play there's a scene where a 27-year-old Li'l Bit sleeps with an 18-year-old boy and begins to understand some of the appeal she had for Uncle Peck. And the last scene goes all the way back to the beginning of the story and the first time Uncle Peck molested Li'l Bit, when she was 11.
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* GreekChorus: There are three supporting players called in the stage directions "Male Greek Chorus", "Female Greek Chorus", and "Teenaged Greek Chorus". But in fact this is averted, as the Greek Choruses don't comment on the action, but are actually playing all the characters in the play except for Li'l Bit and Uncle Peck.
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A woman, known to the audience only as L'il Bit, tells a story of her complicated relationship with her uncle. Uncle Peck taught Li'l Bit to drive, as well as a few other things. [[WordofGod According to the playwright]], Paula Vogel, ''How I Learned to Drive'' is "a play about the gifts we receive from the people who hurt us" -- and about control and manipulation. It is possibly the most heartbreaking play about pedophilia and incest you'll ever read or see.
It won the UsefulNotes/PulitzerPrize in 1998 and was revived OffBroadway in 2012.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: The original production starred Mary-Louise Parker as Li'l Bit, David Wain as Uncle Peck, and Michael Showalter as the male Greek Chorus.
** '''Creator/MichaelIanBlack''': ...Michael [Showalter] was in How I Learned To Drive, which won a Pulitzer Prize. I was in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
** '''David Wain''': Which won a Tony.
** '''Creator/MichaelIanBlack''': ...Michael [Showalter] was in How I Learned To Drive, which won a Pulitzer Prize. I was in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
** '''David Wain''': Which won a Tony.
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A woman, known to the audience only as L'il Bit, tells a story of her complicated relationship with her uncle. Uncle Peck taught Li'l Bit to drive, as well as a few other things. [[WordofGod According to the playwright]], Paula Vogel, ''How I Learned to Drive'' is "a play about the gifts we receive from the people who hurt us" -- and about control and manipulation. It is possibly the most heartbreaking play about pedophilia and incest you'll ever read or see.
It won the PulitzerPrize in 1998 and was revived OffBroadway in 2012.
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This play provides examples of:
* TheAlcoholic
* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: As well as grandparents. Li'l Bits' breasts are a regular dinner topic.
* ComingOfAgeStory
* EmbarrassingNickname: Li'l Bit, Uncle Peck, and many other members of the family are given nicknames that refer to their genitals.
* FilleFatale: Averted, though Li'l Bit is accused of being one by her uncle's wife.
* FreudianExcuse: Hinted at.
* GrowingUpSucks: And how.
* HeyItsThatGuy: The original production starred Mary-Louise Parker as Li'l Bit, David Morse (of St. Elsewhere) as Uncle Peck, and comedian Michael Showalter (of Stella and The State) as the Male Greek Chorus.
** '''Michael Ian Black''': ...Michael [Showalter] was in How I Learned To Drive, which won a Pulitzer Prize. I was in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
** '''David Wain''': Which won a Tony. [[http://www.stellacomedy.com/website_press/onion.htm ]]
* HotForStudent, arguably, though Peck isn't an official (driving) teacher.
* IncestIsRelative
* NotBloodSiblings: Peck married into Li'l Bit's family. But still.
* OffTheWagon [[spoiler:After Li'l Bit rejects him, Uncle Peck eventually drinks himself to death.]]
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname
* SympathyForTheDevil: Though immoral behavior is not presented as being moral.
* ThanksForTheMammary: A middle school classmate fakes an allergic reaction, and when Li'l Bit asks what he's allergic to, he grabs a handful and yells, "foam rubber!"
* UmbrellaDrink: Lampshaded, in a way: Li'l Bit is strenuously warned against ordering one of these.
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It won the PulitzerPrize in 1998 and was revived OffBroadway in 2012.
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This play provides examples of:
* TheAlcoholic
* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: As well as grandparents. Li'l Bits' breasts are a regular dinner topic.
* ComingOfAgeStory
* EmbarrassingNickname: Li'l Bit, Uncle Peck, and many other members of the family are given nicknames that refer to their genitals.
* FilleFatale: Averted, though Li'l Bit is accused of being one by her uncle's wife.
* FreudianExcuse: Hinted at.
* GrowingUpSucks: And how.
* HeyItsThatGuy: The original production starred Mary-Louise Parker as Li'l Bit, David Morse (of St. Elsewhere) as Uncle Peck, and comedian Michael Showalter (of Stella and The State) as the Male Greek Chorus.
** '''Michael Ian Black''': ...Michael [Showalter] was in How I Learned To Drive, which won a Pulitzer Prize. I was in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
** '''David Wain''': Which won a Tony. [[http://www.stellacomedy.com/website_press/onion.htm ]]
* HotForStudent, arguably, though Peck isn't an official (driving) teacher.
* IncestIsRelative
* NotBloodSiblings: Peck married into Li'l Bit's family. But still.
* OffTheWagon [[spoiler:After Li'l Bit rejects him, Uncle Peck eventually drinks himself to death.]]
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname
* SympathyForTheDevil: Though immoral behavior is not presented as being moral.
* ThanksForTheMammary: A middle school classmate fakes an allergic reaction, and when Li'l Bit asks what he's allergic to, he grabs a handful and yells, "foam rubber!"
* UmbrellaDrink: Lampshaded, in a way: Li'l Bit is strenuously warned against ordering one of these.
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