The Public Theatre of Kentucky presents Driving Miss Daisy
Published 12:00 am Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Winner of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize and the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Off-Broadway Play this play takes place 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 seventy-two, is informed by her son 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, until eventually, they both come to realize they have more in common than they ever believed possible.
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April 15- May 1 Showtimes- Thursdays 7pm, Fridays and Saturdays 8pm, and Sundays 3pm.
There will be NO Easter performance
An opening reception will be held after the show on Saturday April 16.
For reservations, call 781-6233; Ticket prices- $13 for adults and $10 for students and seniors.
PTK will be hosting its annual Acting Day Camp in June for kids ages 8-18. Call or email for a brochure!