The challenge for me, as the director, is how to bring out the emotion for the audience,” Clevinger said. “They will hear 1960s music such as Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye, B.B. King, the Four Tops, the Temptations, and Martha Reeves and the Vandellas. We will have people watching the play who lived through that period, so the language, the set, the costumes and the emotion must ring true. “The students from the Holmes Diversity Center will be our ushers, and we’re very excited about that. Also, having speakers just before each night of the performance will hopefully set the audience’s
minds into 1962 Mississippi and get them in the frame of mind for what they are about to hear.” Ernest Green’s keynote address is set for Tuesday, February 27 at 2pm in the Colvard Student Union Ballroom at MSU. Performances of “…And the Rain Came to Mayfield” will be held at the McComas Theater at 7:30 p.m. on the 27th, 28th, and March 1. For more information, Clevinger can be reached at 662-325-4034. Tickets can be ordered online through the MSU Department of Communication at www.comm.msstate.edu.
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