Auburn and red: three names, three different curtain times
The rarest colouring the house carries, and the only note you can hold in your head all at once. Three women in three distinct shades: soft auburn worn in waves, a dark auburn red that reads almost burgundy under a low light, and a warm auburn brown.
What separates them is not the shade but the hour each is built for. One takes the early curtain, one takes eight o'clock, one takes the late screening, and between them they cover an entire evening in this quarter. Every figure below is the same £250 hour as the rest of the sheet.
Cast as Auburn and red
Plain facts, checked in person, never a guess. Every badge opens her pass, where the same details sit beside her rail and her photo call.
The early curtain, and a run nobody has reviewed yet
Lea is 161 cm, petite, hazel eyed, with soft auburn waves and a laugh that lands before you have finished the sentence. She works in interiors, throws ceramics badly and on purpose, and has a genuine weakness for a small theatre with a two week run in it. Ninety minutes at £400 covers a glass and the seats; four hours at £900 carries supper afterwards. Midweek curtains are easiest, and weekend seats want planning.
Eight o'clock, and a table with the water below it
Luna is 171 cm, dark auburn red, direct brown eyes, and she dresses with deliberate weight rather than anything floaty. She tastes wine attentively, photographs everything, and buys her own theatre tickets whether or not anyone is taking her. She works Monday to Thursday and keeps eight o'clock for herself. £500 buys two hours, the rooftop and the table beneath it; £700 stretches it to three and adds the walk by the water along Strand and Aldwych.
The late screening, and a walk after it
Patricia is 172 cm, slim, and dresses in soft lines rather than sharp ones, long auburn brown hair and a steady way of watching you finish a thought. She paints in watercolour most days, knows every second hand bookshop worth the detour, and would take black and white over colour every time. £700 takes three hours through a bar, a screening and the walk that follows. She would far rather have a day or two than sixty minutes of warning.
Three shades, and how they are recorded
Auburn on this sheet means what the eye sees in ordinary light rather than what a filter did to a photograph. Lea holds the lightest and softest of the three, Luna the deepest red, Patricia the warm brown middle. One pair of hazel eyes and two brown. Heights of 161, 171 and 172 cm. Any of it is redrawn the month it changes, which is the only way a note stays worth reading.
What three names means in practice
A short note fills faster than a long one. Between them these three cover every day of the week, but each keeps her own working pattern rather than the whole of it, so the useful move is to send two dates instead of one. Where both are impossible the desk says so plainly rather than offering somebody else under the same heading and hoping you will not notice.
Where the three also sit
Lea is on petite, Luna on curvaceous, and Patricia appears on statuesque as well as slim and slender, which is the pairing that decides it for most people reading two notes together. Two of the three are in their early twenties and one in the band above.
Holding one of the three
Send a name, a date, an hour and the building she is coming to. The reply carries the figure and the arrival time; a single yes holds the evening, and you are asked for nothing else until she is at the door. An evening with a curtain in it is what this note is booked for most often, and booking lists the three details settled before she leaves home.
Cast another way
Call the stage door
One message names the evening you want and the desk answers inside a quarter of an hour, at any point on the clock. Tell us the day, the hour, how long you would like and where she should come, and the rest is written down for you.
Running order
- Half hour
- Beginners
- YouCurtain up
- Interval
- Final bow