Taylor Alanis

Texas State's Department of Theater and Dance will present a play this week by artist-in-residence Eugene Lee. Bobcat Update's Taylor Alanis has more. 

Black History Month has brought many forms of cultural art and expression to Texas State, and Eugene Lee's play Somebody Called is about to show audiences a different point of view regarding  segregation during the civil rights era.
Somebody Called is the story of two preachers living in Boley, Oklahoma, in 1957. The two main characters are opposites. Reverend Billy Ray Jackson is an evangelist who meets a Texas preacher, and the Texas preacher decides he must help save Jackson's soul.
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Writer and director Lee says Somebody Called serves as a metaphor for redemption and salvation.
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Lee says he wanted to take the onset of desegregation and flip it by having events occur in an all-black town. He wanted audiences to see integration in reverse, something he's never seen. 
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The cast and crew say the play's message is moving and that the audience may be able to feel, or even see, the presence of god.
SBSomebody Called is playing at the Theater Center Main Stage from February 18th to the 22nd at 7:30 P-M, and on February 23rd at 2 P-M. For more information you can call the box office. For Bobcat Update, I'm Taylor Alanis.