"Driving Miss Daisy" by Alfred Uhry at Albany Civic Theater - May 17 through June 2, 2024.

Performance Dates: May 17, 18, 19, 24, 25, 26, 31, June 1, 2, 2024. Fri & Sat 7:30, Sun 3:00

Pay-What-You-Will preview: Thursday May 16, 2024. 7:30.

A talkback with the director and cast to follow the Sunday, May 26th performance

The place is the Deep South, the time 1948, just prior to the civil rights movement. Having recently demolished another car, Daisy Werthan, a rich, sharp-tongued Jewish widow of seventy-two, is informed by her son, Boolie, that henceforth she must rely on the services of a chauffeur. The person he hires for the job is a thoughtful, unemployed black man, Hoke, whom Miss Daisy immediately regards with disdain and who, in turn, is not impressed with his employer’s patronizing tone and, he believes, her latent prejudice. But, in a series of absorbing scenes spanning twenty-five years, the two, despite their mutual differences, grow ever closer to, and more dependent on, each other.