Details

In The Diviners we learn that love, family and friendship are as difficult to find as much-needed water in a parched land, and even more desirable. The play is set in a small rural southern Indiana town. The Depression had taken its toll on society, and the characters in the play seek to regain their faith and restore a better way of life for themselves. As a road-weary strange wanders into town, the local folk are excited; each of them has their own hope of what the result of his presence will be, but the newcomer and a local boy form a special bond that challenges these expectations. It is a story of hopeful love, awakening adolescence, duty towards family, and weathering life's storms. Through it all, the idiot boy's simple faith is a challenge to the more cynical characters to consider their own hearts. In a time that was sparse and prosaic, a rare look at reverence for life and the mystical becomes illuminated in this play amidst the discussions of human frailty and death.

Cast/Performers

C.C. Showers, Edward Gelhaus, Ferris Layman, Matthew Albrecht, Jenie Mae Layman, Sara Pavlak, Buddy Layman, David Ammentorp, Norma Henshaw, Jennifer Lehmkuhl, Darlene Henshaw, Sara Swanberg, Goldie Short, Erin Wolter, Basil Bennett, Andrew Greene, Luella Benett, Veronica Raulin, Melvin Wilder, Seth, David Healy, Dewey Maples, Brent Bendson

Creatives/Company

Author: Jim Leonard Jr.
Company: Saint Mary's University of Minnesota
Director(s): Gary Diomandes (Dr), Anna Ebbesen (assistant / stage manager)
Lighting(s): Roger Frith, Keith Donovan (assistant)