Driving Miss Daisy
From: Monday, 26th September 2011
To: Saturday, 17 December 2011
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Synopsis
Don't miss this year's hottest theatre tickets as two of the world's greatest living actors, Vanessa Redgrave and James Earl Jones arrive in London to perform Alfred Uhry's timeless Pulitzer Prize-winning classic Driving Miss Daisy at the Wyndhams Theatre.
Atlanta, Georgia 1948. Daisy Werthan (Vanessa Redgrave) is a rich middle-class lady of 72, widowed and doing the usual things - bridge, Temple, shopping and driving...into lampposts. Enter Hoke (James Earl Jones), a retired Black worker from the Werthan family factory. It's his job to drive Miss Daisy wherever she wants to go. Daisy and Hoke are a little bit old to be starting a journey together. Where will they end up...?
Spanning 25 years and evoking memories of the Deep South in the 50s and 60s, Driving Miss Daisy was adapted for the screen in 1989, winning Oscars for Best Film, Best Actress (Jessica Tandy) and Best Screenplay.
David Esbjornson's acclaimed, smash-hit production of Driving Miss Daisy has dazzled audiences and critics alike on Broadway.
Vanessa Redgrave's last London stage outing was The Year of Magical Thinking, the National Theatre's staging of Joan Didion's memoir, directed by David Hare. The one-woman play transferred to the NT Lyttelton in 2008 following a 2007 Broadway run.
James Earl Jones was last seen in the West End last year as Big Daddy in an all-African-American production of Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. The Whatsonstage.com Award-winning production opened in December 2009 at the Novello Theatre
Sparklingly funny, irresistibly heart-warming and with an unmissable stellar cast, this is the must-see show of 2011 so book your Driving Miss Daisy tickets for this extremely limited season now!
Our Review:
Michael Coveney - 6 October 2011
It is fairly wonderful to see Vanessa Redgrave and James Earl Jones as the warring stereotypes of a Southern Jewish matriarch and her illiterate black chauffeur in Alfred Uhry’s sentimental 1987 comedy, since filmed with Jessica Tandy and Morgan Freeman in those roles.
But this Broadway production, which I saw in New York last year, does nothing much to convince you that the crumbling hip generation of the late 1950s and early 1960s presaged a change in society for the better; so they chuck in footage of Martin Luther King on a civil rights march and a quick recorded chorus of “we shall overcome some day”.
The play proceeds by numbers, each scene ticking off a point but not quite clinching it; it lacks heart and it lacks soul, always did, even in the superior West End production of 1988 starring Wendy Hiller and Clarke Peters. Daisy’s son, businessman Boolie - nicely done here, as on Broadway, by Boyd Gaines - insists on giving ...
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Rob - 28 November 2011:
Humourous performances by all three cast members which examines the issues of friendship, age and tolerance without ramming the message down the audience's throat. The theatrical version of a warm and comfy winter cardigan. Fantastic....
Cast
Vanessa Redgrave (Daisy Werthan)
James Earl Jones (Hoke Coleburn)
Boyd Gaines (Boolie Werthan)
Creative
Alfred Uhry (Author)
Jed Bernstein (Producer)
Adam Zotovich (Producer)
David Esbjornson (Director)
John Lee Beatty L:Peter Kaczorowski (Design)
Jane Greenwood (Costume)
Christopher Cronin (Sound)
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