Not Now, Darling

Creative Team

 

Written by Ray Cooney and John Chapman / Directed by Fred Rubeck / Scenic Design by Brandon PT Davis / Costume Design by Ashley Harrison / Lighting Design by Savannah Bell / Sound Design by Michael Burke / Okoboji Summer Theatre / 2018

Abstract

Centered in a London Fur Salon, Not Now Darling follows the misadventures of Arnold Crouch, one of the two owners struggling to keep the business in shape, and his partner Gilbert Bodley, an insatiable philanderer. Gilbert sells it at a cheap postmistress with a luxurious mink coat without troubling her jealous husband to present his. However, things are not ever that simple. In the end, despite the chaotic chain of events that includes mistaken identities, scantily clad women kept hidden in closets, mobsters, suspicious wives, and misguided shoppers- everything turns out as it should be!

As a British farce, I wanted to create a feminine quality within the British architecture in which the play is set. I referenced the work of Wes Anderson’s cinematic color palette and, of course, added a few solid doors.