The Diviners begins as it ends — with an account of a fatal drowning. The play’s circular structure suggests both a sad inevitability and a tragic dignity to events in a tiny town in southern Indiana ...

“The Diviners,” a play about a former preacher with a past who develops a bond with a mentally-challenged boy leading to tragic circumstances, will be performed by Mira Costa Drama/Tech beginning ...

It takes a village to raise a child, and during the Depression in Zion, Indiana, folks have opinions on raising Buddy Layman despite his daddy's insistence that "kids are fine on their own." A ...

The concept behind the story of The Diviners was more inspired than its finished product. Set in Southern Indiana during the Depression, it is about a boy, 14-year-old Buddy, who almost drowned at the ...

From the beginning of "The Diviners," when Zion, Ind., farmer Basil Bennett (Mike Culbertson) announces, "The idiot boy is dead," we know something bad is going to happen in the next two hours. "The ...

A search for water and a search for salvation cross paths in Sacramento State’s production of Jim Leonard Jr.’s drama The Diviners. Directed by Theatre and Dance Professor Michelle Felten, The ...

For example, when Buddy says he's going to run off in the woods, he really does. (Or, when he looks up through the treetops and says it's about to rain, you hope you are not about to witness a weird ...

Jim Leonard’s “The Diviners” opens at Seminole State College on Sept. 28, and director George Colangelo has made a nontraditional casting choice: The character of Buddy, a disturbed young man, will be ...