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2009 2010 Season Anouncement
“Tapas”
Coordinator: Lois Pearlman
See our Home page for details.
Driving Miss Daisy
Opening July 10
Nancy Hansen, Pegasus Artistic Director, will direct the show and is joined by veteran designers Leslee Baren (Sets), David R. Wright and Nick Charles (Lights) and Mark Gregory (Sound). Patti Blaylock and Michelle Randall will take on the responsibilities of Stage and Production Managers.
Miss Daisy is set in the Deep South in 1948, just prior to the civil rights movement. Having recently demolished another car, Daisy Wertham, a rich, sharp-tongued Jewish widow of 72, 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. Hoke, 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 25 years, despite their mutual differences, they grow ever closer, and more dependent on each other.
This is, in many ways, a history play. The Civil War is over, of course. Slavery is a thing of the past. But Hoke still can’t use the bathroom in Standard Stations. The Jewish Temple is bombed. And Boolie is afraid of losing clients if he supports Martin Luther King Jr.
Driving Miss Daisy is a warm and funny play that will, stimulate thought and conversation about our American values, our pride and our love for one another.
TO RESERVE TICKETS visit the Box Office Page or call (707) 522-9043.
Driving Directions:
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