Spotlight May-June 2019

Region IV
Wetumpka Depot Players
Wetumpka, Alabama
wetumpkadepot.com
Donna Grier
The Diviners by Jim Leonard, Jr.
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. The Wetumpka Depot Players' production is directed by Kim Mason.
The Wetumpka Depot Players (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.
The Diviners is scheduled to perform at the Majestic Theater in Gettysburg, Wednesday,
June 19, at 1 pm.
Brad Sinclair, Reese Lynch, and Lauren Norris in
The Diviners
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