The use of driving lessons as an analogy for Li'l Bit's dark journey is an effective one, and enables her uncle to combine his two passions in life his car and his niece (a passion which started, he disturbingly reveals, when she was a newborn baby). This means the abuse grows more disturbing as the play progresses, building to the first instance of impropriety during a driving lesson when Li'l Bit is just 11. The play explores the abusive relationship between Peck and Li'l Bit over a number of years, cannily serving the key scenes in reverse chronological order. Paula Vogel's 1997 Pultizer Prize-winning play introduces us to a truly vile family living in 1960s Maryland.Īlarm bells ring when we discover they all have nicknames based on their genitalia – the teenaged daugher is Li'l Bit, her grandfather is Big Daddy and her 40-something uncle has the aptly creepy moniker of Peck. Life lessons: William Ellis and Olivia Poulet in How I Learned to Drive
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