Thanks all for your help and references. The play has been performed successfully. Apart from the mobile phone in the audience (a child's toy - start the rudeness early). One little tale, though, you might appreciate - when the women offered the crew flat cornbread, dried berries and nuts, the ship's engineer helped himself as if he were at the salad cart at Pizza Hut, stacking things up as if he were really hungry. Which was odd, because all these items were made of folded or scrunched up tissue paper.

Penny