The Diviners

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 he does best. He works as a mechanic for the boy's father. The town doesn't have a preacher and the women try to persuade him to preach while he tries to persuade the child to wash. When the preacher finally gets the boy in the river and is washing him, the townspeople mistake the scene for a baptism.

Muncie Civic Theatre presents The Diviners on the Mainstage Theatre, February 18th-19th, 25th-27th, & March 3rd-5th. Thursday through Saturday performances are at 7:30pm and the Sunday matinee on February 27th is at 2:00pm. Tickets are $15 for adults and $7 for students.

Cast List
C.C. - Ryan Lash
Buddy - Andrew Cutshaw
Dewey - Ross Reagan
Melvin - Kodie Egenolf
Jenny Mae - Cassie Alexander 
Darlene - Lauren Donahue
Ferris - Benji Koontz
Basil - Jeff Shull
Luella - Wendy Carpenter
Goldie - Phoebe Wantz 
Norma - Sonja Rees

Written by Jim Leonard, Jr.
Directed by Todd Sandman