Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhry
Directed by Barbara Davis
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Performance Dates: May 17, 18, 19, 24, 25, 26, 31, June 1, 2, 2024. Fri & Sat 7:30, Sun 3:00
Pay-What-You-Will preview: Thursday May 16, 2024. 7:30.
A talkback with the director and cast to follow the Sunday, May 26th performance
The place is the Deep South, the time 1948, just prior to the civil rights movement. Having recently demolished another car, Daisy Werthan, a rich, sharp-tongued Jewish widow of seventy-two, is informed by her son, Boolie, that henceforth she must rely on the services of a chauffeur. The person he hires for the job is a thoughtful, unemployed black man, Hoke, whom Miss Daisy immediately regards with disdain and who, in turn, is not impressed with his employer’s patronizing tone and, he believes, her latent prejudice. But, in a series of absorbing scenes spanning twenty-five years, the two, despite their mutual differences, grow ever closer to, and more dependent on, each other.
Introducing the 2023-2024 Board of Directors:
President - Evan Jones
VP-Company Operations - Brian Starnes
VP-Public Relations - Laura Darling
Artistic Director - Ellen Cribbs
VP-Production - John Quinan
VP-Membership Services - Kevin McNamara
Recording Secretary - Abbi Roy
Treasurer - Rich Landers
Technical Director - Peter Kantor
Trustees at Large - Barbara Davis, Amanda Brinke-Dorman, David Quinones, Nathaniel Beynon, Erin Zielinski, Kathleen Keene