The Diviners at Bishop McNamara High School, Mar 16-18

Bishop McNamara High School presents
The Diviners
By Jim Leonard Jr.

March 16 – 18, 2018
Friday – March 16th – 7:30 pm
Saturday – March 17th – 7:30 pm
Sunday – March 18th – 2:00 pm

Location: Bishop McNamara High School in Forestville.

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. They descend on the event and, in the confusion, the boy drowns.

Tickets are $10, and can be purchased here.

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