- APRIL 2009 -
Driving Miss Daisy
Drama by Alfred Uhry
Performances: April 17, 18, & 19* and April 23, 24, 25, & 26*

his Pulitzer Prize and Oscar winning American classic takes place in Atlanta and spans the twenty-five years before, during, and after the civil rights movement. It tells the bittersweet story of an elderly white southern Jewish lady and her black chauffeur. At first Miss Daisy resents all that hiring a driver represents: getting older, losing her independence and privacy, and putting on airs. As the years pass, an unspoken friendship between this unlikely pair develops and they discover they are not so different.