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How i learned to drive by paula vogel6/20/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Paula Vogel is the author of Indecent, The Baltimore Waltz, The Long Christmas Ride Home, Don Juan Comes Home from Iraq and A Civil War Christmas, among many other plays. It is published here for the first time as a stand-alone edition. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Paula Vogel’s How I Learned to Drive is widely recognized as a masterpiece of contemporary drama. This is the gift of theater and of writing: a transubstantiation of pain and secrecy into light, into community, into understanding if not acceptance.” - Paula Vogel, from her Preface It felt as if the play was rewriting me, and I will always remember the sensation of lightness I had in the middle of the night as I wrote it. How I Learned to Drive gave me that gift. “As I try to come to grips with the lack of control I have in terms of my own visibility and commercial success within the American Theater, I remain convinced that I have control in terms of how I see my identity. ![]()
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