The Barn Theatre announces full cast and creative team for DRIVING MISS DAISY

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The Barn Theatre in Cirencester have announced the full cast and creative team for their upcoming revival of Alfred Uhry’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Driving Miss Daisy, which runs at the theatre from 19 August–17 September marking the play’s 35th anniversary.

The magnificent eulogy to friendship, which spans 25 years from 1948 to 1973, follows the relationship of an elderly Southern Jewish widow Daisy Werthan and her African American chauffeur Hoke Coleburn, and how despite their early differences and prejudices they become lifelong friends.

Simon Reade, former Artistic Director of Bristol Old Vic, will direct the new production of Driving Miss Daisy with two-time Olivier Award nominee Susan Tracy (Anna Christie, Three Sisters, RSC) as Daisy Werthan, Mensah Bediako (Andor, Much Ado About Nothing) as Hoke Coleburn and John Sackville (Genius: Einstein, The Crown) as Boolie Werthan.

The revival will feature design by Gregor Donnelly, lighting by Sam Rowcliffe-Tanner, and sound by Harry Smith.

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