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. When the preacher finally gets the boy in the river to wash him, the townspeople mistake the scene for a baptism. What unfolds is a harrowing event that rocks the town forever.
BUDDY LAYMAN - Aaron McCaskill
JENNIE MAE LAYMAN - Christie Davis
FERRIS LAYMAN - Jad Jordan
C. C. SHOWERS - Dexter McDaniel
NORMA HENSHAW - Teresa Harris
DARLENE HENSHAW - Kaitlyn Warrell
BASIL BENNETT - Mitchell Wohl
LUELLA BENNETT - Emily Layt
GOLDIE SHORT - Hazel Robinson
MELVIN WILDER - Alex Thomas
DEWEY MAPLES - Ashton Couper
MUSICIAN - Burt Keirstead
Sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture,
St. Johns Cultural Council, St. Johns County Tourist Development Council and Community Foundation for Northeast Florida.
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