{"id":16415,"date":"2016-10-20T12:15:31","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T18:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flovalleynews.com\/?p=16415"},"modified":"2016-10-20T12:15:31","modified_gmt":"2016-10-20T18:15:31","slug":"fcc-hosts-driving-miss-daisy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flovalleynews.com\/?p=16415","title":{"rendered":"FCC Hosts Driving Miss Daisy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Driving Miss Daisy<\/em><\/strong> by Hawthorne Players at Eagan Center in Nov.<\/strong><\/h1>\n

(Special to the Independent News)<\/strong><\/h3>\n

\"dmd_-in-car\"<\/a>Hawthorne Players will present Alfred Uhry\u2019s Pulitzer prize-winning play Driving Miss Daisy <\/em>on Nov. 4, 5, 11, 12 at 7:30 p.m. and on Nov. 13 at 2 p.m. in the Florissant Civic Center Theatre.\u00a0\u00a0Tickets are $18 for adults, $16 for\u00a0seniors\/students and may be purchased by calling the Box Office at (314) 921-5678 or online at\u00a0www.florissantmo.com.<\/p>\n

The play is a warm-hearted, humorous, and moving study of the unlikely relationship between an aging, crotchety, white Southern lady, and a proud, soft-spoken African-American man. The pairing of the two begins when Daisy, a sharp-tongued\u00a0Jewish widow, after one too many accidents, is forced to rely on the services of a chauffeur. The audience follows the two over a span of 25 years, as they, despite their mutual differences, grow ever closer to and more dependent upon each other.<\/p>\n

The Hawthorne production stars Nancy Crouse as Daisy Werthan and Archie Coleman as Hoke Coleburn. \u00a0Ken Clark portrays daisy\u2019s son, Boolie.\u00a0\u00a0Trish Nelke directs.<\/p>\n

Crouse notes that the play, set in the years 1948 to 1973, continues to be relevant today.\u00a0\u00a0At one point, Daisy says, “Isn\u2019t it wonderful the way things are changing?” and Hoke replies that things are changing, but they haven’t changed all that\u00a0much.<\/p>\n

In Hawthorne\u2019s 2012 production of Fences<\/em>, Coleman gave an acclaimed performance as Troy Maxson, the embittered former baseball player.\u00a0\u00a0Coleman notes, \u201cIn that play we talked about fences being built around the characters.\u00a0\u00a0We have\u00a0that in Uhry’s play, as well.\u00a0\u00a0Society has put fences around these people based upon race.\u00a0\u00a0For me this play is the story of two people deconstructing those fences and realizing they are just people.\u00a0\u00a0They both learn from each other.\u201d<\/p>\n

Not that it is an easy journey.\u00a0\u00a0Late in the story, Daisy tells Hoke, \u201cYou ought not to be driving anything, the way you see.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Hoke replies, \u201cHow you know the way I see, less you lookin\u2019 out my eyes.\u201d<\/p>\n

The play presents challenges for the actors as they portray their characters over the three-decade period, requiring each to reveal changing personal and interpersonal relationships as well as physical decline.\u00a0\u00a0“It’s a welcome opportunity,”\u00a0Crouse says. “Daisy is just the kind of role every actress loves to explore and bring to the stage, hoping to reveal the nuances of the human condition.”<\/p>\n

Director Nelke anticipates that large audiences will come out for this very special, touching play.\u00a0\u00a0She says, “The characters in Driving Miss Daisy<\/em> are universal figures; they are three people who are very different from each other and who could\u00a0be anyone, anywhere \u2013 on a journey that is so much more than a few cars\u2019 worth of road trips.”<\/p>\n

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