The Diviners

Synopsis

A play in two acts and elegies

Drama / 6m, 5f / Unit set w. platforms Winner of the American College Theatre Festival, this marvelously theatrical play is the story of a disturbed young man and his friendship with a disenchanted preacher in southern Indiana in the early 1930s.

When the boy was young he almost drowned.

This trauma and the loss of his mother in the same accident has left him deathly afraid of water.

The preacher, set on breaking away from a long line of Kentucky family preachers, is determined not to do what h