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Driving Miss Daisy

Our 553rd Production

Driving Miss Daisy
By Alfred Uhry 
Directed by Carla Childs 
June 12th, 13th, 14th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 26th, 27th, 28th, 2026 
Friday and Saturday at 8:00 p.m., Sunday at 2:00 p.m.

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.

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