How I Learned to Drive Reviews
Washington Post- Highly Recommended
"...Paula Vogel’s 1997 “How I Learned to Drive” is on the shortlist of masterworks about sexual abuse, and in the #MeToo era, it’s a live grenade onstage. The pin is pulled and the audience barely breathes during the respectful, unsettling production that director Amber Paige McGinnis has fashioned at the Round House Theatre."
DC Theater Arts- Recommended
"...How I Learned to Drive is uncompromising and provides no easy black and white. That makes it so disquieting. With its back-and-forth in time, Vogel provides the audience with a breather and time to ponder the horrors they witness."
MD Theatre Guide- Highly Recommended
"...I highly recommend you see it, particularly on a night when they have a discussion session after the show. In today’s world, it is so important that people who have suffered these kinds of experiences can tell their stories and be believed, and hopefully, that can be one step forward to both healing for the individual, as well as building better understanding and empathy among our society as a whole."
DCTheatreScene- Highly Recommended
"...See, How I Learned to Drive is not simply a story of the patriarchy in its most brutal form. It is a story of the conspiracy between men and women to keep us all in a sexual dystopia. Later, mom (Emily Townley) and grandma talk with Li’l Bit about how they use sex to manipulate men. “They’re children,” says grandma, and she means it; she treats Big Papa exactly as she might treat a six-year-old, one with whom she has sex, frequently."
BroadwayWorld- Recommended
"...Alyssa Wilmoth Keegan is simply terrific in the central role, introducing the story as a wizened 34 year old, but easily tumbling back in time, transforming in innocence and a higher voice to her early- and pre-teens as the work requires."