Show Plot The Diviners

Authors: Jim Leonard

Time Period: The Great Depression

Setting: Zion, Indiana

Summary: The Diviners is a poignant dramatic comedy by American playwright Jim Leonard Jr. Set during the Great Depression in the early 1930s, it takes place in Zion, a fictional, drought-stricken farming town in southern Indiana. The story explores the tragic, healing friendship between a traumatized, water-fearing boy and a former preacher.