January 15 – February 20, 2010
Fridays – Saturdays at 8:00pm
Tickets: $15.00 – $17.00
Reservations: 720.221.3821 or lida@lida.org
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Part science lab, part disco, Roller Skating With My Cousin combines the mythology and archetypes of the Biblical story of the Tower of Babel with the sexual revolutionary act of roller skating, while
simultaneously asking whether we can all create a custom-designed universe in our kitchen sink and, furthermore, why did Ronald Reagan fail as the anti-Christ?

This mash-up of themes results in a lively, dark romp in which a synchronized chorus of roller skaters builds a tower under a star-flecked mirror ball sky.

BALLS! A Holiday Spectacular (PG 16)
A new-fashioned variety show conceived and performed by Melanie Owen Padilla and Mare Trevathan, with flashy guest stars and a chorus of sock puppets.

December 3 – 19, 2009
Thursdays – Saturdays at 7:31pm
Tickets: Pay-What-It’s-Worth; Offering Plate will be passed; Cash or Check Only, please.
Reservations: 720.221.3821 or lida@lida.org

Guest stars, include:

December 3:
Emily K. Harrison, Traci Kearn, Steven Burge & George Peele

December 4:
George Peele, Ron Sanchez & Tamara Bradley

December 5:
Diane Wziontka, Reyna Von Vett & John Weeks

December 10:
Billie McBride, Chris Loffelmacher, Sheryl Renee & Middleroad

December 11:
Diana Dresser, Mike Marlow, Susannah Coates & Paul Ewald

December 12:
Karen Slack, Patty Kingsbaker, Kevin Lowry & Munster Boogie 

December 17:
Eryc Eyl, Juliet Wittman, Jason Doherty & Laura Jo Trexler

December 18:
Candy Brown, Regan Linton, GerRee Hinshaw & Jim Ruberto

December 19:
Meridith Crosley, Jenni Graham, John Common & Diana Gatschet

The 75 minute show is followed by an Afterglow party.

Big Love by Charles Mee
Presented by The Aluminous Collective

November 6 – 21, 2009
Fridays – Saturdays at 8:00pm
Tickets:  $12.00 – $15.00 – Click here to purchase tickets.
Reservations: 720.221.3821 or lida@lida.org

Fifty brides flee to Italy to escape a forced marriage to fifty grooms. The grooms give chase to their brides-to-be, and a wild story of love, aggression, compassion and violence unfolds. Helicopters, tomatoes, flailing brides, befuddled grooms, swinging chandeliers…

All this, plus singing and dancing too.

In Big Love Charles Mee has taken one of the very oldest surviving plays in the western world, reduced it to ruins, and ‘written a new play, set in the world today’.  In this modern version, rife with pop songs and power struggles, fifty young women are contracted to marry their cousins and no one in their world has the power or inclination to save them.  So, forty nine brides murder forty nine grooms on their wedding night, and one bride falls in love; ‘about the same odds as today’.

Dave Lohrey in his Curtain Up review lauds Mee for creating ‘an explosively theatrical hybrid, the vaudevillian tragicomedy. It is, to say the least, a most improbable combination, but it works, gloriously.’ Since the Spring of 2009, a large ensemble of over twenty artists in the Boulder / Denver area have pillaged Mee’s work, just as he has pillaged material from ancient Greece, and re-made a new piece true to our own times.

The Aluminous Collective is a newly formed group of collaborators, founded by graduates of Naropa University’s MFA program in Contemporary Performance. Big Love is co-sponsored by The Boulder International Fringe Festival.

O2v (Orlando, Orlando and Virginia)
A collaborative theatre piece inspired by Virginia Woolf’s Orlando.

July 10-25 2009
Fridays and Staurdays at 8:00pm
Tickets: $15.00
Reservations: 720.221.3821 or lida@lida.org

“It is always about sex and power, even inside a writer’s head.”

Featuring:
Todd Anthony Black
Tamara Bradley
Doron Burks
Amy Garland
Jeff Garland
Kaylen Higgins
George Kotelnikov
Genoa Martin
Stephanie Ortiz
Eric Pung
Sam Scotti
Gwendolyn Smith
Diana Solis

Directed and written by kryssi wyckoff martin
Original score written and performed by Melanie Owen Padilla
Set design by Schuyler Burks
Sound design by Brian Freeland
Costumes and masks by Karie Wyckoff

O2V is an original piece using characters from Virginia Woolf’s novel Orlando stitched together with other pieces of her writing.