The DIVINERS

The Production Company
( 03/05/2010 - 04/10/2010 )

CRITIC'S PICK! -Backstage West - Jim Leonard’s depression-era epic receives a miraculous new imagining and power-house performances in The Production Company’s second offering of 2010! With Broadway and other major credits, this is a dream cast to tackle this important work. A disillusioned preacher named C. C. Showers takes work on a farm in Zion, Indiana – population forty - where the local soothsayer is a 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. Shortly after settling in, C. C. reveals that he is a former preacher who has lost faith in his vocation. That knowledge changes everything. T L Kolman’s ‘The Diviners’ reveals why this fable is a splendidly complex, deeply moving play. It is in turns humorous, beautiful, and tragic; and surprisingly speaks of many present day concerns with gentle wisdom