Driving Miss Daisy

After wrecking yet another brand-new car, Miss Daisy, the widow of a wealthy Jewish manufacturer, is made by her son Boolie to give up driving. Boolie hires her a Black chauffeur, the phlegmatic and wise Hoke. At first relations between the two are tense: Miss Daisy has all the arrogance of her social position, a set of prejudices and a sharp tongue. In time, however, as they come up against segregation and antisemitism, things change and the two grow close. What do you do when a simple drive to the Piggly Wiggly supermarket becomes a mirror of your own journey through life? And what do you do when, one day, stuck in traffic caused by a terrorist attack, you discover that the most difficult and surprising person in your life is you? "That's about the size of it," as Hoke Colburn, Miss Daisy's chauffeur, would say. Beyond a poetic and comic story about friendship and tolerance, the production is on one hand an essay - cruel in places - on what Tolstoy called "the great surprise of life", old age, and on the other a meditation on our journey through life, a journey that is difficult and unpredictable to the very end because, after all, it is life that has no limits, not death.