A Love in a Car Crush: Reviewing Tainan Jen Theatre’s How I Learned to Drive

“The quality of mercy is not strained!”1 As the female protagonist, Li'l Bit, in Paula Vogle’sHow I Learned to Drive quoted from Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice. Clearly, as a girl growing up in a family in which every grown-up always treat her as an immature child, Li’l Bit (or the little one) feels the need to question such kind of authoritative “mercy.” However, as the show goes on, the audience will discover that her struggle between leading an independent life and her relationship with her Uncle Peck, who has loved her both like a daughter and a lover, is not that easily solved.