In the corner, a girl sobs. A man lies center stage, shoulders heaving, utterly beaten. A horde of townspeople stand in the back, stricken and horrified. Suddenly, the tense silence is broken by a ...
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 ...
Set in rural Indiana in the early 1930s, Jim Leonard Jr.’s 1980 play, “The Diviners,” drips with a period regionalism that is almost folkloric in tone. The play requires careful handling, or its ...
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 ...
Some people are gifted. They are talented, intelligent or beautiful. Buddy Layman has the gift of finding water. In “The Diviners,” produced by Tri-School Theatre and set in the Dust Bowl of the 1930s ...
An epic novel with scads of characters has to be a daunting prospect for any audiobook narrator. The gold standard in pulling it off is Roy Dotrice, whose performances of four titles in George R.R.
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 ...
Winner of the 1979 American College Theater Festival, “The Diviners” tells the story of a brain-damaged 14-year-old’s friendship with a 30-year-old preacher turned itinerant farm worker in a small ...
Prepare to crank those amps up to eleven.
Having your makeup done by a professional may constitute one of life's most sensual, revelatory moments. A couple of weeks ago, I was in Halifax for the television show Open Book, hosted by Mary Walsh ...
Rick Moody, author of The Ice Storm, has just published his first novel in seven years. The Diviners satirizes the entertainment industry, circa 2000. Moody tells Linda Wertheimer the book should be ...
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