Employing a poem-as-script strategy, “Dying For the Pleasure” is a blackly humorous, kaleidoscopic trip down Memory Lane, the car a metaphor for power, an extension of desire. Once behind the wheel, we are transformed into cyborgs, driven to deliverance. Set at the intersection of flesh and metal, beyond road rage and autoeroticism, Dying for the Pleasure explores a woman’s dread of, and terrible infatuation with, the car and car culture.