How I Learned to Drive
Written by Paula Vogel
Directed by Mark Vogel
Manhattan Theatre Club
March 31, 2022
Production website
💉💉 out of 5.

I just didn’t get this play.  I just didn’t get it.  I know that this is Paula Vogel’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play and I know that the dream team of Mary-Louise Parker (Proof) and Tony nominee David Morse (The Iceman Cometh) were the perfect performers for the story but I just didn’t get it.  I appreciated the skill of the playwright in building this sexual assault from its small simple beginning to its conclusion.  The creepiness of the relationship between this adult man and girl was palpable.  I appreciated the effects of a family that has no boundaries – how it abandons every member and opens the door to all kinds of demons.  BUT what was the girl after?