Guests at today’s Westport Country Playhouse 2016 season block party got a chance to view set design models for past productions. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Dave Matlow for WestportNow.com

The Westport Library today launched a public awareness campaign whose goal is to connect people by highlighting their passions as well as communicate the vital role the library plays in the community. The campaign uses professional photographs of individuals showing what they “geek,” a word used as a verb to illustrate that everyone is passionate about something. Westporter Jessica Bram brought along an antique typewriter to show Bill Harmer, the library’s executive director, what she geeks. Photo sessions by photographer Pam Einarsen for those interested in participating are scheduled for Saturday, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.; Friday, April 15, 3 to 5 p.m., and Tuesday, May 17 6 to 8 p.m. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Phyllis Groner for WestportNow.com

A larger poster of Westporter David Pogue, technology writer, musician, and a man of many other talents, has been placed outside the Westport Library as part of its new awareness campaign called “What Do You Geek?” The library invited the public to participate in the campaign by having their picture taken (solid black tops only, please) with what they “geek” by professional photogapher Pam Einersen. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Phyllis Groner for WestportNow.com

Scenes from tonight’s reception marking the launch of the Westport Library’s “What Do You Geek ?” campaign. The public awareness campaign aims to connect people by highlighting their passions as well as communicate the vital role the library plays in the community. Phyllis Groner for WestportNow.com

The Westport Community Theatre presents Noël Coward’s “Private Lives,” a comedy about the hilarious and tumultuous relationship between a divorced couple, from Friday through April 24. Performances are on Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. and at 2 p.m. on Sundays, with a Thursday performance on April 14 at 8 p.m. Tickets are $23, $21 for seniors and students, and can be purchased at www. westportcommunitytheatre.com or by calling (203) 226-1983. Westport Community Theatre is located in the basement of Town Hall at 110 Myrtle Ave. Pictured are John Bachelder, Ann Kinner, David Victor and Sam Pattinson. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Contributed photo

By Susan Granger

“Eye in the Sky,” starring Helen Mirren and the late Alan Rickman, is a timely British thriller about drone warfare that turns out to be a real nail-biter.

It begins in a Cabinet office in London, where Lt. Gen. Frank Benson (Rickman) and several officials have ascertained the exact location in Nairobi, Kenya, where several people on their Most Wanted list are convening, including a radicalized British woman with an Al-Shabaab militant.

High above is an American drone, piloted by Steve Watts (Aaron Paul) from a bunker in Nevada, while British Colonel Katherine Powell (Mirren) remotely commands a team of local Kenyan troops, hidden in a nearby warehouse, ready to capture, not kill, the woman and her conspirators.

But when an onsite operative, Jama Farah (Barkhad Abdi), flies a tiny drone, resembling a bug, into the target’s house, it feeds back pictures of terrorists’ preparations for an imminent suicide attack, perhaps at a crowded shopping mall, like before.