How I Learned To Drive: Trauma In Theatre

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Author
Kline, Shelby J.
Keyword
First Reader Andrew P. Saito
Senior Project
Semester Spring 2022
Readers/Advisors
Saito, Andrew P.
Term and Year
Spring 2022
Date Published
2022

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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/11964
Abstract
How I Learned To Drive was a senior capstone project in the Fall of 2021. The play focuses on how a child, who is assaulted by a family member at a young age, grows up with the lingering trauma of sexual assault from ages 11 to 30. In my senior project, I had to learn what it was like as an actor to portray trauma, while keeping my own mental health in tact. After a 2 year pandemic in which I wasn't able to perform, this was quite the role to take on. I learned about myself through collaboration with my peers, as well as the history and affects of sexual assault through childhood to adulthood. Performing in How I Learned To Drive was not easy, but it was well worth it.
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