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Production Requirements: A Costume Plot Database
Play Title: How I Learned to Drive

Title:  How I Learned to Drive
Playwright:  Vogel, Paula  Publisher:  Dramatists Play Service
Year  1997  Genre:  Other
Period:  20thC1960s  Number of Acts/Scenes  0
Passage of time:  Flashbacks through 20 years
Basic Plot:  (from script jacket) Tale of survival as seen through the lense of a troubling relationship between a young girl and an older man.
Contributor's Name:  Tollefson/M. Cobourne
Contributor's Email:  not available
Budget:  not available
Producing Organization:  Phoenix Theatre, Indianapolis
Cast Size As Written
  Male Actors:  1
  Male Chorus Actors:  1
Total Male Actors:  2
Number of Characters as Written
  Male Characters:  1
  Male Chorus Characters:  4
Total Male Characters:  5
Costume Numbers as Written
  Male Costumes:  1
  Male Chorus Costumes:  5
Total Male Costumes:  6
Actual Cast Size (if produced)
  Male Actors:  1
  Male Chorus Actors:  1
Total Male Actors:  2
Costume Numbers (if produced)
  Male Costumes:  1
  Male Chorus Costumes:  1
Total Male Costumes:  2
  Female Actors:  1
  Female Chorus Actors:  2
Total Female Actors:  3
 
  Female Characters:  1
  Female Chorus Characters:  6
Total Female Characters:  7
 
  Female Costumes:  1
  Female Chorus Costumes:  8
Total Female Costumes:  9

  Female Actors:  1
  Female Chorus Actors:  2
Total Female Actors:  3
 
  Female Costumes:  0
  Female Chorus Costumes:  2
Total Female Costumes:  2
Notes on possible reduction/expansion of characters/costumes:  In our production we used a base "chorus" costume that added pieces for each chorus member to play other roles
Quick Changes:  none
Specialty/Special effects costumes required:  none
Other important notes:  

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