District UIL One Act Play will be a little bit different this year. Jayton has been moved to Region 2 and will be competing on Tuesday, Mar. 4 in Aspermont. Spur will be competing in Spur on Wednesday, Mar. 5. will be performing “Peter and the Starcatcher” by Rick Elice. It is set in 1885 London and on the high seas, bound for the fictional kingdom of Rundoon.
is performing “The Diviners.” This marvelously theatrical play 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. They descend on the event, and, in the confusion, the boy drowns.
