We've just had a design meeting: Mike Wareham, Anthony Hall, Gilly French and myself.  Mike has built an initial set model based on my first ideas and we were thrashing out a number of issues to do with the size of stage (we have a stage built for us at Bampton and Westonbirt, so shape and scale are flexible) and  sightlines (in open-air venues audience tend to fan out and can't always see the whole stage if they choose to sit on the periphery).  As we are correctly setting this at the quayside at Taranto in Southern Italy, albeit updated to the 1950s, we were bouncing around a number of ideas relating to the style of Italian beach-huts, and fish-stalls.  Mike has an intriguing project in hand to create flapping seagulls....