National Company Performs - Region IV
The Diviners by Jim Leonard, Jr.
Wetumpka Depot Players, Wetumpka, Alabama
The Diviners 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.
The Diviners is in turns humorous, beautiful, and tragic.
Cast (in order of appearance)
Basil Bennett........................................................Lloyd Strickland
Dewey Maples.................................................... Matthew Mitchell
Melvin Wilder................................................................Terry Grant
Buddy Layman.......................................................... Reese Lynch
Luella Bennett......................................................... Kristy Meanor
C.C. Showers............................................................ Brad Sinclair
Jennie Mae Layman................................................. Lauren Norris
Ferris Layman.............................................................. Lee Borden
Norma Henshaw........................................................Cheryl Jones
Goldie Short.....................................................Adrian Lee Borden
Musician...............................................................Amanda Borden
Director.....................................................Kim Mason
Stage Manager....................... Mary Katherine Moore
Scenic Design......................................Kristy Meanor
Costume Design................................... Gayle Sandlin
Crew.....................................................Steve Mitchell
Scene Artistry....................................Charlotte Elkins
The Wetumpka Depot Theatre (WDP) is celebrating 39 years of entertaining, educating, and reaching out to the community in central Alabama. The group produces 5-7 mainstage productions per year. WDP also hosts various community outreach programs including a thriving Youth Academy, Penguin Project, and Encore Players. School matinees bring in over 3000 students per year to experience live theatre. The Diviners is the second national production for the Depot Players, in 2011, the group presented Second Samuel at AACTFest 2011 national festival in Rochester, New York.
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