Driving Miss Daisy
July 4th 2010 02:26
Original Creative Writing:
Alfred Uhry
Christine Harris & HIT Productions present
Driving Miss Daisy
By Alfred Uhry
Directed by Denis Moore
Riverside Theatres
August 31 - September 4
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.
Although Brian Davison now lives in Australia, he was born and raised in Los Angeles California. Since arriving in Australia he has performed in stage productions Of Mice and Men, The Miracle of the Rose for both Melbourne and Sydney seasons, Slow Trains an' Dirty Towns, Dizney on Dry Ice, Six Degrees of Separation and Nuts.
Debra Lawrance is one of Australia's most widely loved actors, having played some of Australian television's most watched characters including Pippa in Channel Seven's Home and Away, Reverend Grace Curtis in Channel Seven's Blue Heelers, Daphne Graham in Network Ten's Prisoner and Lisa Cook in Channel Seven's Sons and Daughters. Lawrance's theatre credits include Blackbird Productions' The Steel Magnolias, Hothouse Tour's Second Childhood and MTC's Memory of Water and Sylvia amongst others.
Tamblyn Lord has delighted audiences both on television and on stage. His recent theatre credits include Melbourne Theatre Company's Explorations of Macbeth and Griffin Theatre Company's Red Light Winter. On television he has played in popular series including Network Ten's Rush, Channel Seven's City Homicide and on Showcase's Satisfaction.
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
SINGLE TICKET PRICES: Adults $52, Conc $47
BOOKINGS: Riverside Box Office 02 8839 3399
Driving Miss Daisy
By Alfred Uhry
Directed by Denis Moore
Riverside Theatres
August 31 - September 4
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.
Worth the drive from anywhere. A total delight!
The New York Daily News
The New York Daily News
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.
Although Brian Davison now lives in Australia, he was born and raised in Los Angeles California. Since arriving in Australia he has performed in stage productions Of Mice and Men, The Miracle of the Rose for both Melbourne and Sydney seasons, Slow Trains an' Dirty Towns, Dizney on Dry Ice, Six Degrees of Separation and Nuts.
Debra Lawrance is one of Australia's most widely loved actors, having played some of Australian television's most watched characters including Pippa in Channel Seven's Home and Away, Reverend Grace Curtis in Channel Seven's Blue Heelers, Daphne Graham in Network Ten's Prisoner and Lisa Cook in Channel Seven's Sons and Daughters. Lawrance's theatre credits include Blackbird Productions' The Steel Magnolias, Hothouse Tour's Second Childhood and MTC's Memory of Water and Sylvia amongst others.
Tamblyn Lord has delighted audiences both on television and on stage. His recent theatre credits include Melbourne Theatre Company's Explorations of Macbeth and Griffin Theatre Company's Red Light Winter. On television he has played in popular series including Network Ten's Rush, Channel Seven's City Homicide and on Showcase's Satisfaction.
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
SINGLE TICKET PRICES: Adults $52, Conc $47
BOOKINGS: Riverside Box Office 02 8839 3399
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