Gwen speeds back to Derby in Driving Miss Daisy

Published: 16 June 2012
Reporter: Steve Orme

Driving Miss DaisyDerby-born actress Gwen Taylor, who last month made her first appearance on the Derby Theatre stage for 14 years in Michael Morpurgo’s The Butterfly Lion, has wasted no time in booking her return.

She will partner Don Warrington in Driving Miss Daisy which will be undertaking a nationwide tour.

It arrives at Derby Theatre from 20 until 24 November and is one of the highlights of the season running from September until January.

The programme starts with 1970s-inspired musical Disco Inferno from 10 until 15 September. It features Dani Harmer, Javine Hylton and Sam Attwater.

Melvyn Hayes stars in Ron Aldridge’s You’re Only Young Twice from 18 until 22 September before Gary Wilmot and Sara Crowe appear in the musical Radio Times from 1 until 6 October.

Duncan Preston, Richard O’ Callaghan and Joe McFadden star in the first UK tour of the London production of Haunting Julia, Alan Ayckbourn’s study of grief, obsession and the supernatural, which stops off in Derby from 22 until 27 October.

London Classic Theatre’s tour of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest visits Derby from 5 until 10 November and is followed by the Original Theatre Company’s presentation of Jerome K Jerome’s Three Men in a Boat from 14 until 17 November.

Bill Kenwright presents Charles Dickens’s The Haunting which stars Peter Bowles and James Roache from 26 November until 1 December.

The Christmas production will be the already announced Charlotte’s Web by E B White from 7 December until 12 January.

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