LCCC Theatre Department presents
The Diviners
by Jim Leonard Jr.
Directed by Dave Cotton
Performance Dates: November 19, 20 and 21
Curtain: 8:00 pm
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.
In Jim Leonard Jr's gothic prairie melodrama, a disillusioned Kentucky preacher named C.C. Showers takes work on a farm in a fictional hamlet named Zion - population forty - where the local soothsayer is a raving teenage boy. The youth has been abnormally terrified of water since age four when his mother drowned saving him. Miraculously, Buddy seems to have been left with a gift: he can locate precious underground aquifers. Buddy is a diviner. The two become fast friends and C.C. soon finds himself acting as Buddy's mentor and teacher. He seems to be able to relate to Buddy in ways that most people can't. Shortly after settling in, C.C. reveals that he is a former preacher who has lost faith in his vocation. That knowledge changes everything. The townsfolk have been praying for a preacher. The conflict of interests soon evolves into a crisis that leads to a great tragedy.
The Diviners is presented in the Stocker Arts Center’s Cirigliano Studio Theatre on the campus of Lorain County Community College, 1005 N. Abbe Road, Elyria, OH 44035
Tickets: $8/Adults; $7/LCCC Students, Staff & Seniors 65+; $6/Groups of 15 or more.
For more information and/or to purchase tickets, come to the Stocker Arts Center Box Office, which is open weekdays from 12 noon to 6:00pm, call (440) 366-4040 or (800) 995-5222 ext. 4040 during those hours, or purchase online at www.stockerartscenter.com.
Produced by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.
Jeremy K. Benjamin
Director of Theatre
Production Manager/Technical Director/Designer
Lorain County Community College
(440) 366-7120
jbenjami@lorainccc.edu
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