Would you Adam and Eve it?

Meeting Adeleh in Starbucks later this week to discuss possibility of her designing the poster/leaflets. Want to base the design on a painting of Adam and Eve with cartoon style enhancements that tie in with the content of the show, as well as echoing the other publicity images I will be using. Will take my pink colander and my giant pink flower to show her.

The End!

Wrote the final scene today! That doesn't mean it's finished, just that I've worked out how it ends. Still quite a bit to fill in, in between. Have incorporated the giant pink flower. Realised it fitted in perfectly with an idea I jotted down ages ago, before I bought it, about men preferring practical gifts and women liking pretty things. Delighted with the final scene as I feel it incorporates a bit of everything - romance, sex, music, dancing, humour, pathos, relevance, visual interest..... Have also come up with some publicity phrases today: - Sophisticated silliness. An intricately woven intellectually stimulating tapestry of historical accuracies and anachronisms. Some nudity (well, sort of) and rudity (but no crudity)

Saw this and Thought of You

Spotted giant pink artificial flowers in a shop yesterday for £7.50 and immediately thought “I have to write one of those into Venus and Mars” so I got one. My first prop purchase. So that leaves just £192.50 in the production budget. It’s huge; as big as my head. Very excited about it. It’s like I’ve bought the show a present, rather like buying a teddy for your baby before it’s born. Then took it to the cinema to see Slumdog Millionaire. Think it enjoyed the film. Now it’s standing by my desk to inspire me as I write the script. Shop was called Evolution which seems somehow appropriate; with the themes of Adam and Eve and other early human myths and the evolving relationship between the genders and changing status of women. Don’t know yet which scene it will appear in. It might even feature on the poster. And in the street publicity. I’m envisaging an elaborate Comedia d’el Arte style mime where Mars keeps trying to present the huge flower to Venus and she turns him down until he gets it right. Or perhaps he tries to put it in his button hole but it’s too big, then in her hair (same problem) then in a vase but it topples over. Perhaps, instead of a mime, just a freeze…..or rather a series of freezes, like a live strip cartoon (no, not that sort of strip!) while Bianca and I give out leaflets and talk to people about the show.