Belmont Abbey College

We are introduced in a cemetery to the ghosts of those who were inhabitants of this town, and whose secrets have gone with them to the grave. There are 60 odd characterizations and vignettes in this constantly interesting entertainment offering an amazingly varied array of roles and impersonations, from young lovers and preachers and teachers to the funny chronicle of the poor mixed up Jew who ends up in the wrong cemetery. Both the solid and humorous sides of life are portrayed, with fetching ballads, and the free verse form of Masters.

"A dramatic presentation reduced to its simplest terms. . . . moving and beautiful. . . . An evening of astonishingly stirring emotional satisfaction." - N.Y. Post

"A glowing theatre experience. . . . A brooding and loving American folk poem brought to life on a stage."- N.Y. Times

Playwrights are given a photo prompt, and then locked overnight in the Haid Theatre. By 8:00 the next morning, they have written short plays. Directors are assigned a play and a cast. By 8:00 that night the plays are onstage in front of an audience! This amazing event is a showcase for all of the talents found in the Abbey Players, and is a “don’t miss” part of the season!

Ernst Janning, one of the most influential German legal minds of the pre war era, and other influential Nazis face a military tribunal in the second wave of post war trials at Nuremberg. Issues at the forefront of this trial reverberate through history and challenge humanity to this day.

“A powerful work of art.”- The Associated Press

“Gives oratory the muscle, sweat and high stakes of a last man standing prize fight.” - The New York Times

“A magnificent reenactment of the seminal trials of the modern era.”–Newsweek

“Incisive, blistering, thought provoking...Crises out powerfully to our own time in countless ways.”
-Chicago Sun Times

Winner of the American College Theatre Festival, 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.

“A splendid drama by a playwright ...with poetic as well as human feeling.” Variety

“The Diviners, which would be meritorious from anyone, is astounding from so young a writer.... Renders the humor and horror of the hinterlands with staggering accuracy....Compelling.”  New York Magazine

Just in time for spring, the Shakespeare Series returns with one of the Bard’s most delightful romances. As the characters converge on the Forest of Arden, love is sparked between Orlando and Rosalind. But what Orlando doesn’t know is that Rosalind has disguised herself as a boy so that she can give Orlando advice about wooing Rosalind! Confused? So is Orlando!