Drive by Deborah Yarchun at Northern Stage

Directed by Michael Legg

A community of truckers in a small town in Iowa are forced to shift gears when they lose their jobs to self-driving vehicles. When Gloria becomes the only trucker in town still employed, resentments surface and tensions escalate. Set in a time not far down the road, Drive explores our collective fears for the future, and what happens when individuals who are fiercely defined by their work are forced to reevaluate what drives them. Drive is the winner of the 2020 Dartmouth College Neukom Institute Literary Arts Award for Playwriting.

Chayes says, "Deborah Yarchun's Drive feels like a new spin on the classic American play. With great compassion and insight, she tells the story of a community with national reverberations. It's a stunning play and an exciting third collaboration with the Neukom Institute."