Breaking Barriers: Plays at Potsdam Public Library

2 Park St,Potsdam NY 13676

08 April, 2022

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Breaking Barriers: Plays at the Library begins starts the community conversation Paula Vogel's play How I Learned to Drive. Come join us and our community partner, St. Lawrence Valley Renewal House, in the Potsdam Public Library's Main Reading Room, 6 p.m., April 8, as we kick off the start of our play-reading and discussion series Breaking Barriers: Plays at the Library with How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel. Breaking Barriers is a four-part series looking at issues that are controversial and central to our community through the lens of theatre arts. How I Learned to Drive tells the story of Li’l Bit, now a woman of around thirty-five years, coming to terms with the abusive and emotionally complex relationship that she had with her Uncle Peck. The play works in a non-linear way, using flashbacks, monologues, and a heightened sense of the surreal to show how Li’l Bit relates to her memory and trauma. Actors will read the script in the style of a staged or choral reading, reading from music stands with spoken stage directions. Following the readings, there will be a conversation between Breaking Barriers creators, participants, and community organization liaisons meant to engage in the themes, concerns, and impact of the play. To learn more about Breaking Barriers and its creation and purpose, visit https://potsdamlibrary.org/new-ppl-play-series-breaks-barriers/ This project is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, and administered by the St. Lawrence County Arts Council.