IT’S now 30 years since the award winning Driving Miss Daisy first premiered and marking that anniversary is the show’s current tour which will call into Worcestershire next week.

The Theatre Royal Bath will be presenting a new production of this delightful play penned by the Pulitzer Prize, Academy and Tony Award-winning playwright Alfred Uhry.

From this comedy-drama’s landmark off-Broadway production in 1987 to the remarkable success of the 1989 film version, which was the winner of four Academy Awards including Best Picture, Driving Miss Daisy has touched the hearts of millions worldwide.

When it opens at Malvern’s Festival Theatre on Monday, November 20 for a one week run it will star Dame Siân Phillips as Daisy and Derek Griffiths as Hoke.

When elderly widow Daisy Werthan crashes her car one day in 1948, her son hires her a chauffeur, an African-American named Hoke Colburn.

Daisy and Hoke’s relationship gets off to a rocky start, but as times change across a 25-year backdrop of prejudice, inequality and civil unrest, a profound and life-altering friendship blossoms in this acclaimed story.

Dame Siân Phillips has enjoyed a dazzling career which spans more than seven decades - from her multi award-wining performance in I, Claudius to the epic film Dune, from a Tony nominated performance of Marlene on Broadway to Cabaret in the West End.

RSC actor and legendary presenter, Derek Griffiths’ numerous West End credits include the original production of Beauty and the Beast in which he originated the role of Lumière and the Child Catcher in the West End run of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at the London Palladium.

Alfred Uhry is one of the few writers to have earned Academy, Tony and Pulitzer Prize awards as a playwright and screenwriter. Having based the story of Driving Miss Daisy on his own family history, the play won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1988. His adaptation of the screenplay went on to win an Oscar in 1989.