Driving Miss Daisy at Centre Stage

Driving Miss Daisy
By Alfred Uhry
Directed by Chip Egan
(June 10 - 26, 2010)
Starring Shirley Sarlin, Clark Nesbitt and Rick Connor
Sponsored by Lorraine Goldstein and Hal Weiss
This production made possible in part by a bequest from the estate of Frieda Silver.

The place is the Deep South, the time 1948, just prior to the civil rights movement. Having recently demolished another car, Daisy Wertham, a rich, sharp-tongued Jewish widow of seventy-two, is informed by her son that 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. Winner of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize and the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Off-Broadway Play. A warm-hearted, humorous and affecting study of the unlikely relationship between an aging, crotchety white Southern lady, and a proud, soft-spoken black man.

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