NAU theater performance majors, Eric Brekke, left, Shilah Larson and Brian Maticic get into the drama of rehearsing for NAU's Theater's Oct. 6 opening performance of 'The Diviners.'

NAU Theater kicks off season with 'The Diviners'

James Leonard's funny and profoundly human play, The Diviners, kicks off Northern Arizona University's theater season with performances Oct. 6-14 in the Studio Theater on the NAU campus.

Directed by NAU theater professor Mac Groves and acted by NAU theater students, The Diviners is about a 14-year-old mentally impaired boy whose memories of almost drowning when a toddler haunt him until he finds help from a burned-out country preacher.

"This is a wonderful play about good and simple folk who struggle to live out the Depression by dependence on each other," Groves said. "It's a perfect companion to our last play of the season, Grapes of Wrath, another deeply American tale rooted in some of the 20th century's darkest days."

NAU Theater season tickets on sale now Save 40 percent off general admission prices with season tickets for NAU's 2006-07 theater season. Season ticket prices are $25 for students, $33 for staff and faculty, and $36 for the public. The 2006-07 season schedule is available online. Call the NAU Central Ticket Office at (928) 523-5661.

Groves said that the play illustrates "how to cherish the things you have in life while they're with you. Too often we live out our lives trying to get to heaven, only to find that heaven was among us all along."

Tickets are $11 for general admission, $10 for faculty, staff and senior citizens, and $8 for NAU students. Call the NAU Central Ticket Office at (928) 523-5661. For information, go to www.cal.nau.edu/theatre.

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