Hat stands, flip charts, dust busters and The Sun

We now have the full 37 aprons. Have worked out that in a 50 minute show with a cast of two who wear 18 (Will) and 19 (Susie) respectively, that makes an average of 2.7 minutes per apron which is frankly ridiculous. Fortunately I am not allowing my better judgement to win and was delighted to see the crazy notion brought to life in the fist rehearsal/photo shoot which confirmed that it’s going to work really well. In reality, some aprons are worn for considerably less than that and some rather longer. One only gets a few seconds exposure but we agreed the £16.90 was justified for a one liner that would be repeated 22 times (or should that be 21 times if there are 22 performances as the first is not a repeat?!). Have ordered a mahogany hat stand from Amazon to hang the aprons on. Am strangely excited about owning my own hat stand. Might even use it for hats after the show is finished! I have also ordered a flip chart easel which I am equally thrilled at the prospect of owning. Only a few props left to get, including a dustbuster space rocket, a cape and a posy of dark flowers that resemble grapes (as featured in the Venus of Urbino painting). Loving the luxury of doing a show that is way more extravagant than my recent low budget efforts, which have mainly been confined to a couple of chairs and a table with maybe a glass or two or a couple of coffee cups, all of which can be borrowed from the venue. Sometimes I run to the extravagance of a newspaper. In fact, this show does feature Adam looking at The Sun in the Garden of Eden and we've decided to use that day’s edition for each show to keep it truly contemporary so that’s another 20p x 22 = £4.40 on the budget! Think I will send photo of this scene to The Sun and see if they will publish it! Decided not to have “space helmets” on the planets Venus and Mars after all as I realised these ideas pre-dated the aprons and were not needed so am now left with a baby pink colander and three blue hard hats (got 2 spares for some bizarre reason) I don’t need. I asked the cast how they felt about this and Susie said she was indifferent. This is presumably because she has never tried wearing a colander on her head on stage. Had she done so, she would have been tremendously relieved at its removal.