(Driving Miss Daisy) - Play by Alfred Uhry
Atlanta, Georgia, 1948: Miss Daisy Werthan is used to taking her affairs into her own hands. Until the day when the 72-year-old widow wrecks her new car, including the neighbor's garage, and her son Boolie dares to express doubts about her fitness to drive... A colored chauffeur is needed, which Miss Daisy vehemently rejects at first. But she cannot resist the charming manner of the new driver, Hoke Coleburn, for long. With perseverance and unimpressed by some of the old lady's unfriendly remarks, Hoke finally manages to get Miss Daisy to sit in the back seat. During their journey together, the contrasts - here the wealthy, educated Jewish Southern lady, there the black employee from the lower classes - but also many unexpected similarities between the two outsiders come to light. At a time when racial segregation was still a matter of course in everyday life in the USA, a deep friendship gradually develops between the protagonists.
The play manages to address the seriousness of racism, prejudice and discrimination in a humanly warm, moving and at the same time very entertaining way.
Introduction with Matheo Eggel at 6.45 pm
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The play manages to address the seriousness of racism, prejudice and discrimination in a humanly warm, moving and at the same time very entertaining way.
Introduction with Matheo Eggel at 6.45 pm
Note: This text was translated by machine translation software and not by a human translator. It may contain translation errors.