Autoeroticism in Detroit

Steven Somkin’s Autoeroticism in Detroit is a new comedy about the quirkiness of ambition, based on GM’s creation of the first electric car. On the way to seeking a vice-presidency, a rising executive succumbs to the beauty of his son’s girlfriend and decides to leave his wife of 26 years. The wife, an acerbic, articulate woman, overcomes conventions and range and finds the key to her own considerable ambition in the arms of a spiritual cowboy. James B. Nicola directs.