{"id":27132,"date":"2026-04-04T12:51:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T12:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heartefact.org\/uncle-s-abuse-during-driving-lessons-italian-la-lettura-on-the-play-how-i-learned-to-drive\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T12:32:39","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T12:32:39","slug":"uncle-s-abuse-during-driving-lessons-italian-la-lettura-on-the-play-how-i-learned-to-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heartefact.org\/en\/uncle-s-abuse-during-driving-lessons-italian-la-lettura-on-the-play-how-i-learned-to-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncle\u2019s Abuse During Driving Lessons: Italian La Lettura on the play &#8220;How I learned to Drive&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">by Rossella Menna for La Lettura<\/span><\/em><br><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">lead photo: Marijana Jankovi\u0107<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When she first read \u201cHow I Learned to Drive\u201d by playwright Paula Vogel, Tara Mani\u0107 was twenty years old, studying directing in Belgrade, and had not yet gotten her driver\u2019s license.\r\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThat\u2019s exactly why I read it!\u201d the director, born in 1994 and an emerging figure in the Serbian theater scene, tells us. \u201cI had misunderstood the title &#8211; I thought it was about driving, independence, a freedom that I hadn\u2019t yet achieved.\u201d\r\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But it isn\u2019t. The text, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998, tells the story of sexual abuse inflicted by an uncle on his niece over several years, beginning when he teaches her how to drive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A kind of &#8220;Lolita&#8221;, but this time written by a woman and narrated by the young girl who experienced the abuse. \u201cWhat I remember most from my first reading is the feeling of claustrophobia, of not being able to breathe &#8211; as if I were watching the meetings between uncle and niece from the back seat of the car.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">About ten years later, that same feeling became the starting point for her direction of Vogel\u2019s text, premiering in Italy on March 28 &#8211; 29 as part of the FOG Festival at Triennale Milano Teatro.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cTogether with set designer Zorana Petrov, we decided there would be no realistically represented car. Instead, we chose to place the audience so close to the actors that everyone feels as if they are in the car with Li\u2019l Bit and Uncle Peck.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The two actors move within an intimate space that removes any visual barrier between the stage and audience. \u201cI want the spectators to experience this uncomfortable proximity, feeling like witnesses to the story\u2014and sometimes even accomplices to what Uncle Peck does to Lil Bit.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mani\u0107, now thirty-two, teaches at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade. She has worked in Serbia and abroad, participating in festivals and winning awards. She is an associate artist at Heartefact, an independent cultural center promoting creative, critical, and responsible engagement with artistic, social, and political issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her generation grew up in a time when female voices began to emerge much more strongly in public space. \u201cI was lucky to be educated in a period marked by the possibility of speaking,\u201d she notes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis text, today in 2026 Serbia, is read differently than it was in 1997 in the United States. Paula Vogel spoke about her experiences with honesty and rawness, but did not explicitly name the theme at first. Public testimonies have completely changed our society. Issues that were once taboo &#8211; such as sexual violence, pedophilia, incest, and grooming &#8211; can now be discussed more openly.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI directed this text through my own dilemmas and experiences, and through reconsidering my position as someone who has sometimes enabled forms of violence I witnessed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The relationship between Li\u2019l Bit and her uncle is not marked by explicit physical violence. Instead, it is a slow, subtle construction of abuse through everyday gestures and trust that infiltrates the gray areas of affection and authority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is no sudden eruption of aggression, but a gradual accumulation of words and actions in a dangerous intertwining of tenderness and abuse. The point of the text is precisely this: violence does not require explicit dissent to exist\u2014only the absence of consent, especially in deeply asymmetrical relationships<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cTheir relationship is marked by constant ambivalence: love, tenderness, curiosity, teaching, trust, authority, and crossing boundaries,\u201d Mani\u0107 observes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The strength of the text lies in the author\u2019s empathy for both characters, as it explores the darkest aspects of human nature and questions the origins of abusive behavior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI don\u2019t believe in evil as something separate from us,\u201d Mani\u0107 says. \u201cNor do I see violence as something abstractly distinct from human behavior. Vogel recognizes its potential within us in an incredibly raw yet subtle way.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In \u201cHow I Learned to Drive\u201d, violence is never shown explicitly on stage. \u201cFrom the beginning, I wanted the performance to remain delicate and not re-traumatizing. In the theater, I\u2019m not interested in reproducing violence itself. I prefer a language that works through the audience\u2019s imagination.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After all, true disturbance does not come from something monstrous and shocking, but from its unsettling, silent familiarity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"27119\" src=\"https:\/\/heartefact.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/tara-manic-How-I-Learned-to-Drive-08-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27119\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heartefact.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/tara-manic-How-I-Learned-to-Drive-08-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/heartefact.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/tara-manic-How-I-Learned-to-Drive-08-200x300.jpg 200w, 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