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"Driving Miss
Daisy" is a play that shows how somebody can overcome
their initial reactions towards a situation and how that
situation changed their life forever. Thus is the story
of Daisy,a Jewish woman living in Atlanta. Her son,
Boolie, hires a chauffer to drive her around the city.
Hoke, an african american man that Daisy wants to have
no relation with, gets the job.
Opening up in the 1950's and running all the way to 1975, this story tells of the growing friendship between Daisy and Hoke. For the first few years Daisy is embarassed to being driven around by a black man but they soon develop a lasting friendship that will last forever. "Driving Miss Daisy" tells one thing. It tells about changes in people. Daisy was a Jewish women who wanted absolutely no part with Hoke. Throughout the play Alfred Uhry is able to develop on each character from Daisy and Hoke, to the maid Idella, to Daisy's son Boolie, to Boolie's wife, and everybody else that appears. This is a very short play and Alfred Uhry had to have some skill to pull off the awesome character development in this. "Driving Miss Daisy" is a story of change in people and of true friendship. This play went on Broadway and became a movie. This play won the Pulitzer Prize in Drama and four Academy Awards for the movie. Performed at the Janice B Streeter Theater @ Court Street Theatres in Nashua January 26, 27 & 28 @ 8pm January 28 & 29 @ 2pm |
