Telling a story about the process of self-discovery and understanding, Cover of LIFE goes up this weekend at the Struble Theatre in the Theatre and Interpretation Center (1949 Campus Dr.).

The show is about three women in 1943 who live in the Louisiana bayou and have each married a Cliffert brother. Each of the men has joined a different branch of the military, and both are overseas. The LIFE editor is intrigued by a local newspaper story about the women and tells reporter Kate Miller, who has been in Europe covering the war, to do a story about them for her first cover feature.

Over the course of the week that the reporter spends with the women, she winds up learning much about herself.

“It’s like two worlds colliding,” says director Blake Spence, a Communication senior. “There’s more to life, upper and lower case, than meets the eye.”

Unlike many other campus shows, Cover of LIFE is not the work of a Northwestern theater group. Instead, the Theatre & Interpretation Center acts as a producer, providing money for the show and help as needed.

The show’s small cast only has seven members. “(It was a) project that was so close to me and the people that are working on it,” Spence says.

He also speaks to the show’s uniqueness, explaining that it’s mainly been performed at high schools.

Spence says the show is relevant to NU students today.

“We live in a time now where we feel the pressures of wartime … this play is all about that, just 60 years earlier,” he says.

Cover of LIFE goes up on Friday, Feb. 2 at 8 p.m. and Saturday, Feb. 3 at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Tickets are $5.

-Christina Amoroso