Death of a Driver

 

The InterAct Theatre Company is presenting the Regional Premiere of Will Snider’s Death of a Driver through November 20, 2022. Hannah Gold portrays Sarah, a young and ambitious engineer who moved  to Kenya to build a major highway and improve the country’s infrastructure. She has drinks with Kennedy, her cab driver, (Akheem Davis) and persuades him to come to work for her and hire more men. This 85-minute production has several scenes which are delineated by the lights lowering on the stage and very short musical interludes. Both characters leave the stage and do a slight costume change at the end of every scene- a shirt added or taken off, pants legs rolled up or down- and they return to the stage with each scene representing a passage of time revealed  by the dialogue. The center of the stage is depressed and is used to represent a prison. Due to political unrest and tribal rivalry in Kenya,  Kennedy finds himself imprisoned. Sarah visits him and gets him released. An imprisonment several years later is another story. The performances in this production are outstanding. Kennedy is initially portrayed as a laid-back cab driver who wants to be-friend Sarah and continues this view of friendship throughout his relationship with her. Near the end of the play, he is very expressive and displays a wide range of emotions. Sarah, on the other hand, is friendly in the beginning but stoic and straight-faced at the end. The last scene of the production is gratuitous. The drama is very much more powerful without it. It is excellent, nonetheless, and very much worth-while seeing. For more information and tickets, visit https://www.interacttheatre.org/death-of-a-driver .