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How to Defend Yourself wrestles with rape culture

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A self-defense class reveals hidden vulnerabilities in Liliana Padilla's world premiere. Last summer, Selina Fillinger's drama Something Clean asked us to consider the aftermath of a campus rape from the point of view of the perpetrator's parents. Now in Liliana Padilla's How to Defend Yourself (presented at Victory Gardens in a co-world premiere with Actors Theatre of Louisville), we meet a group of college students who are wrestling (literally) with what to do after a sorority sister is raped by two young men at a frat party.…

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