'how I Learned To Drive' Takes Stage At Una April 9-11
Apr. 02, 2009
Michelle Eubanks, UNA, at media@una.edu, 256.765.4392 or 256.606.2033
FLORENCE, Ala. - "How I Learned to Drive," winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, will take stage at the University of North Alabama. Show time is 7:30 each evening April 9-11 in Norton Auditorium. Tickets are $5 for students and UNA employees and $10 for the general public.
"How I Learned to Drive" explores the troubled relationship of a young woman and her uncle and how the innocence of teenage driving lessons turn into sexual manipulation and molestation. This landmark play of contemplative theatre and feminist drama contains adult language and sexual subject matter that may be offensive to some audience members.
The play is being produced with Dramatist Play Service Inc.
The following UNA students are involved in the play as cast members or as members of the production crew:
| NAME | ROLE | HOMETOWN |
| Brian Johnson | Director | Florence |
| Daniel Hobbs | Assistant director | Huntsville |
| Lisa Power | Assistant costume designer | Rogersville |
| Britanny James | Lil' Bit | Russellville |
| Ben Flippo | Peck | Madison |
| Lesley Harper | Teenage Chorus | Madison |
| Brinna Brown | Female Chorus | Florence |
| Matt Bryant | Male Chorus | Gadsden |
| Jake Faulkner | Older Male Chorus | Russellville |
About The University of North Alabama
The University of North Alabama is an accredited, comprehensive regional state university offering undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral degree programs through the colleges of Arts, Sciences, and Engineering; the Sanders College of Business and Technology; Education and Human Sciences; and the Anderson College of Nursing and Health Professions. Occupying a 130-acre campus in a residential section of Florence, Alabama, UNA is located within a four-city area that also includes Muscle Shoals, Sheffield, and Tuscumbia. UNA Athletics, a renowned collegiate athletics program with seven (7) Division II National Championships, is now a proud member of NCAA Division I as part of the Atlantic Sun and United Athletic conferences. The University of North Alabama is an equal opportunity institution and does not discriminate in the admission policy on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, disability, age, or national origin. For more: una.edu and una.edu/unaworks/.