Alfred Uhry’s Pulitzer Award-winning play Driving Miss Daisy comes to York Theatre Royal from 7 – 29 June with Paula Wilcox, Cory English and Maurey Richards in leading roles and York Theatre Royal Associate Artist Suzann McLean directing.
Made famous by the 1989 Academy Award-winning film with Morgan Freeman and Jessica Tandy, this comedy-drama is set against a backdrop of prejudice, inequality and the American Civil Rights movement.
When proud Daisy Werthan crashes her car, her son decides to hire a driver for her – African-American Hoke Colburn. Daisy and Hoke’s relationship gets off to a rocky start but, as times change over two decades, a profound friendship blossoms between them.
Director Suzann McLean, Associate Artist at York Theatre Royal, says: “Driving Miss Daisy is a love story about two unlikely individuals who form a friendship in the South during the time of the civil rights movement.
“The play spans 25 years of the Jewish and African American communities living in Atlanta. Key moments in history from the Temple bombing in 1958 to Martin Luther King Jr’s Nobel peace prize dinner in 1964 force us to re-examine where we are as a society today.”
To book call box office 01904 623568
https://www.yorktheatreroyal.co.uk/show/driving-miss-daisy/
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