It consists of seven short vignettes—each one involving just two people, and each one taking place entirely in the front seat of a car.
Autobahn originally consisted of five one-act plays when it premiered as a benefit in March 2004 at the Manhattan Class Company.
The cast included Kevin Bacon, Kieran Culkin, Brian Dennehy, Peter Dinklage, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Christopher Meloni, Amanda Peet, Susan Sarandon, Kyra Sedgwick, and Paul Rudd.
[1] The original five short plays were titled Bench Seat, Long Division, Road Trip, Autobahn, and Merge.
[4] A production in 2009 by Theatre Jezebel at the Tron Theatre in Glasgow starred Sally Reid, Candida Benson, Alison Peebles, Johnny Austin, Lesley Hart, Ru Caddell and Angela Darcy.