S.T.A.G.E. Inc. is honored to present “Driving Miss Daisy,” a drama by Alfred Uhry and directed by Lou Garza, from July 15-31.
Winner of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize in drama, the Outer Critics Circle Award for best off-broadway play, “Daisy” is warm-hearted, humorous and affectionate study of the unlikely relationship between an aging, crotchety white southern lady and a proud, soft-spoken black man. “Driving Miss Daisy” was an off-Broadway success and an Academy Award-winning film.
The play follows the developing friendship of Hoke and Daisy and Hoke, an African American driver and a wealthy assimilated reform Jewish southern lady during the turbulent period of race relations in the South shortly before the Civil Rights Movement was launched by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Boolie, Daisy’s son, is a successful businessman and provides her only support. After Daisy wrecks yet another vehicle, Boolie insists she hire a chauffeur to avoid a potentially fatal car accident.
