Driving Miss Daisy August 31, 2010

Driving Miss Daisy is a heart-warming comedy best known as the Academy Award winning film starring Jessica Tandy and Morgan Freeman. Returning to the original Pulitzer Prize winning stage play written by Alfred Uhry, this touching story about humanity is playing at Riverside Theatres from August 31 to September 4.

Set in the Deep South in 1948, just prior to the civil rights upheaval in the United States, lives Daisy Wertham, played by Debra Lawrance. Daisy Wertham is a rich and sharp-tongued widow of 72 and having recently demolished yet another car, she is informed by her businessman son, Boolie, played by Tamblyn Lord from now on she must rely on the services of a chauffeur, Hoke played by Brian Davison.

Immediately Miss Daisy regards Hoke with disdain and he, in turn, is not favourably impressed with his employer’s patronising tone or her latent prejudice. In a series of absorbing, revealing scenes, spanning 25 years and filled with warm humour and glinting insights, the two, despite their mutual differences, grow ever closer and more dependent on each other, until, eventually, they become almost a couple.

Driving Miss Daisy at Riverside Theatres, Cnr Church and Market Sts, Parramatta
DATES: Tues 31st Aug at 7:30pm; Wed 1st Sept at 7:30pm; Thurs 2nd Sept at 6:30pm; Fri 3rd Sept 7:30pm; Sat 4th Sept at 2:15pm & 7:30pm