The Diviners by Jim Leonard, Jr. at Birmingham Festival Theatre
Dates: 5/3/2018 - 5/19/2018
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901 1/2 11th Ave S.
Birmingham, AL 35205
Phone: 205-933-2383
Tickets: Tickets are $25 general admission, $15 per person for group of ten, $10 students with valid ID, and the second Thursday is pay-what-you-can ($10 minimum).
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The Diviners is the fifth show of Birmingham Festival Theatre’s “Pursuit of Happiness” Season; a funny and deeply moving morality play on religion, friendship and tragedy set in the early years of the Depression. 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. When the preacher finally gets the boy in the river and is washing him, the townspeople mistake the scene for a baptism.
Ages: Adult and senior
Ages: Adult and senior
Cast and Creative Team for The Diviners by Jim Leonard, Jr. at Birmingham Festival Theatre
The Diviners is directed by Daniel Martin and stars: BJ Underwood, Blake Tanner, Martha Summey, David Coker, Donna Love, Hal McIntosh, Kelsey Crawford, Michael Wilson, Penny Thomas, Muhammad AL-Kahlout, and Rachael Burnett. The production team is composed of Kay Thompson (stage manager), Paul Huie (assistant stage manager), Mindy Wester Egan (Scenic design), Sally Montgomery (Costume design), Noah Parson (lighting design) and Kevin Van Hyning (graphic design).
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