How I Learned to Drive is recommended for a mature audience ages 15+.
This production contains racial and sexual discrimination, sexual themes, grooming, death, mentions of paedophilia, depictions of sexual abuse and substance abuse. She has previously been a Sydney Theatre Company – Contemporary Asian Australian Performance Directors' Initiative participant, Griffin Theatre Studio Artist, Melbourne Theatre Company’s Women in Theatre mentee, and Resident Playwright at the Australian Theatre for Young People.
She was most recently NIDA's Associate Artist and a 2020/2021 Australia Council Future Leader. Tasnim is currently on the board of the Australian Theatre for Young People. Tasnim Hossain is a director, playwright, dramaturg and screenwriter. What are the major themes of the play 'How I Learned to Drive' I know. With wry humour, Li'l Bit looks back at the driving lessons with her uncle that extended well beyond learning the rules of the road.ĭirected by Tasnim Hossain ( Yellow Face), this remarkably timely and moving memory play takes us to the heart of a rural Maryland family and shows us the strength of a survivor. How I Learned to Drive is not told with a straightforward plot but is instead an uneven mixture of flashbacks, narration, monologues, and the kind of impersonal voice-over that accompanies driver. In How I Learned to Drive, comment upon the use of Shakespeare in the conversation that L'il Bit and her Grandfather have. Paula Vogel’s Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece of the contemporary American theatre is a funny, confronting ‘60s coming-of-age tale that charts a complex, sexually abusive relationship between a young girl and an older man. Ll Bit grows up in rural Maryland in the 1960s, the play uses the metaphor of learning to drive for her journey through an abusive relationship with her Uncle.
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