![]() These plays about the Jews of Atlanta, “Driving Miss Daisy,” written in 1989, and Ballyhoo in 1996, and then “Parade” in 1998, were later career plays for him. Hirsch: Jewish identity in 1939, particularly in the South, often was a reduced identity, and clearly Alfred Uhry is speaking from his own experience of having grown up extremely assimilated and knowing very little about Judaism as a religion or even, in many ways, in a cultural sense …Īnd I think when he wrote the play in the mid-90s, that was a time when he had really begun coming around to his own Judaism after writing “Driving Miss Daisy.” In our conversation, she discussed the “The Last Night of Ballyhoo” as a work of a very particular time and place.ĪJT: How does the play reflect a search for Jewish identity in Atlanta at the time? ![]() ![]() The director is Mira Hirsch, who founded the Jewish Theatre of the South at the MJCCA. Get The AJT Newsletter by email and never miss our top stories The play is set in Atlanta in December 1939, a few months after the outbreak of World War II in Europe, and tells the story of a highly assimilated Jewish family just before Ballyhoo, a kind of coming out party for upper middle-class Jewish society in the city. ![]()
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