Wednesday, September 29, 2010
USI Theatre opens 2010-11 season with Pultizer Prize-winning How I Learned to Drive
Paul Mindrup as Uncle Peck and Michele Rose as Lil' Bit in How I Learned to Drive,.
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Wendy Knipe Bredhold Media Relations Specialist, News & Information Services 812/461-5259 The play focuses on an abusive relationship between a young girl, Lil' Bit, played by Michele Rose, and her Uncle Peck, played by Paul Mindrup. Other characters in their lives are played by a Chorus of three: Becky Fortner, Alex Hellenberg, and Chris Thompson. "How I Learned to Drive is not the play I expected about evil attempting to subvert all that is good," Wasserman said. "It does not so simplify its subject. Instead, this play is about the relational dynamic in which aberrant behavior can flourish." The play will be staged at 7:30 p.m. October 7-9 and 13-16 and 2 p.m. October 10 and October 17 in the Mallette Studio Theatre in the lower level of the Liberal Arts Center. A reviewer for The New York Times wrote, "The work begins with a comic blitheness and detachment that immediately disarm. Then before you're aware of it, you've fallen into dark, decidedly uncomfortable territory, and it's way too late to pull back." New York Newsday's reviewer wrote, "A sweet play about pedophilia? Intrepid playwright Paula Vogel carries it off." The artistic team for How I Learned to Drive includes USI Department of Performing Arts faculty members Robert Broadfoot as scenic designer and Michael P. Frohling as lighting designer and USI students Anna Kysar as costume designer and Daniel Kopp as sound designer. Tickets are $7 for USI students, $12 for adults, and $10 for seniors (60-plus) and non-USI students. To purchase tickets or for more information, call the box office at 812/465-1668. Click here for a sneak preview of How I Learned to Drive. USI Theatre's next production, John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, runs November 11-21. |
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