Panorama Picks

By Gary Zeidner, Boulder Weekly
March 25, 2004

Theater is all about passion. It doesn’t matter how simple your story, how small your stage or how amateur your actors, as long as you have passion you have potential. Take, for example, the Lafayette Community Players and their current production, Lovers and Other Strangers.

Working out of the converted congregational church now known as the Mary Miller Theater, the LCP pour their passion into Lovers and Other Strangers. The LCP’s Lovers consists of five comic vignettes revolving around love’s many aspects–from first date to divorce. Set against the backdrop of 1970s New York, Lovers is a love letter to the ’70s. The set design purposefully evokes the Rubik’s Cube. A disco ball bathes the theater in a cascade of light as "Play That Funky Music" opens the proceedings. Beads drape the doorways, velvet paintings hang on the walls, leopard-skin pillows rest on the sofas and large, proud ashtrays sit on the kitchen tables. Even if you hated the ’70s, the set and costume designs alone will make you a little nostalgic.

Lovers and Other Strangers plays through March 27, at the Mary Miller Theater, 300 E. Simpson St., Lafayette. Tickets are $10-$12. For tickets or information, call 303-604-3841 or visit www.lcptheater.org.