Driving Miss Daisy
Senior Housing Options/Barth Hotel
Alfred Uhry's Pulitzer Prize winning "Driving Miss Daisy" is a play about prejudice, aging, friendship and family.
Billie McBride’s performance as Miss Daisy captures all the
crotchety racial prejudice of a white suhthuhn matron living in the
nineteen-sixties at the top of the show. McBride’s brilliant acting allows
those in attendance to see her character shift incrementally from stiff-necked
bigotry to dear and vulnerable friend to her African American chauffeur, Hoke. McBride
is one of the finest actors in the region. You owe it to yourself to see her
outstanding performance.
Dwayne Carrington’s performance in the role of Miss Daisy’s
chauffeur, Hoke has such depth one feels he has known this character all his
life. Carrington delivers Hoke’s wisely self-deprecating humor as well as the
understated humor directed at Miss Daisy and her son, Boolie, in such a way as
to enhance a performance you will long remember.
As Miss Daisy’s son, Boolie, Sam Gregory turns in a superb
portrayal of filial love through the lens of filial exasperation. Whenever Sam Gregory’s
name is in the program one knows he is in for an outstanding performance.
Whether George in Paragon Theatre’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” or Atticus
Finch in the Colorado Shakespeare Festival’s “To Kill a Mockingbird,” Gregory
delivers breathtaking work.
Director Ashlee Temple paces the evening at a delightfully leisurely suhthuhn pace.
This is a magnificent evening of theatre that demands to be
seen.
Not to be missed.
“Driving Miss Daisy”
performs in the historic lobby of The Barth Hotel, 1514 Seventeenth Street in
the heart of LoDo. (The Barth is one of Senior Housing Option’s 14
residences and home to 62 elderly and disabled adults.) The play opens
July 26 and runs every Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8:00pm through August
18. Tickets start at $25. For more information and to purchase tickets,
visit www.seniorhousingoptions.org or call
303-595-4464.
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