Driving Miss Daisy
Location
Gladys G Davis Theatre
Monongahela Boulevard, Morgantown, WV, US 26506
WVPT couldn’t be more excited to bring “Driving Miss Daisy,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Alfred Uhry to the stage this summer!
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 and their relationship transforms from employer-employee to deep companionship as they navigate issues of race, class, and aging over several decades. This play later inspired the Academy Award-winning film of the same name starring Morgan Freeman and Jessica Tandy.
Venue: Gladys G. Davis Theatre, WVU Canady Creative Arts Center
Performance Dates & Times:
– Tuesday, June 24 – 7:30 PM
– Wednesday, June 25 – 7:30 PM
– Thursday, June 26 – 7:30 PM
– Friday, June 27 – 7:30 PM
– Saturday, June 28 – 2:00 PM and 7:30 PM*
– Sunday, June 29 – 2:00 PM
️ Ticket Information
Tickets for all performances can be purchased online https://wvuccam.universitytickets.com/?cid=174 or by calling the Box Office at 304-293-TKTS
*ASL Interpreted performance will be on 6/28 at 7:30
Public · Hosted by West Virginia Public Theatre
