I just had a thought, as it is for K&I, tather than it becoming a fan with ribs. How about  thinking along the lines of free flowing flags style, They could still come out from behind the pillar, but would onlyneed to attached on the standing edge to a pole & allowed to loose fly at an angle, enough to give coverage to upstage. This would make it easier to furl back behinf the pillar.

If I manage to come to any costume conclusions in the next few days, I'll let you know.  Right now I'm really fascinated by the fan idea, I think its fabulous.  I was playing with craft sticks and fabric (laugh if you want to) and I really like the look.  The more vanes (veins?) the fan has, the more the fan extends upstage, and it seems the front facade needs to be a bit wider than expected to "hide" pesky, unruly fabric that won't fold back up neatly.  More vanes seem to reduce that problem, but then your dealing with taking up a ton of stage space.  another problem I'm noticing is masking the side(s) of the column when the vanes are not extended.  Looks a bit funky, especially if the fabric is being unruly.  So far I've only come up with having to turn the column when you open the fan so that the fan, when unopened is facing upstage and when opened, opens only to one side.  I realize that this is probably not a lot of help, but I'm just so excited about the fan idea, I can't seem to let it go!

Just a bit of trivia for you ladies.
The first Lighting Techies in theatre were actualy the costumer/appareler, who's job was to tend to the lighting & trimming of the candle & oil wicks on the lamps. So wardrobe people were the orignal lighting crew technicians, brfore us sparkies were ever invented!
The urns remind me of set piece used in the G&S Mikardo, which had casters & moved about by the warm props. There was a door which was cut into the side & the luvvies had great fun with them.
 With the dock & boat, if he is using rostra, they could form the poop deck with a bulwark ground row set behind the US rostra. Along with a sylised mast & ropes.
Or if there is enough space between the cyc/backdrop & the US rosta, mount the mast & side of the ship on to a truck, moving it on & off. With the rostra as the dock, the mast & rigging could be completly stylised & made as a profile flat.
Using 'french braces' on the flat. will stablise it, on the flat instead of trucking it. Attach some strips of deep pile old carpet, glued on the back to the under side tail rail of the flat, with the pile face down to the deck, the flat will run on smoothly. Then swing out the french braces & sand bag/counter weight them.
I hope everything is alright after the accident & the glasses were not completly full dramamama?
As the fan halfs are on OP & PS pillars, using eye scres on the ribs, a cord line could be used thru the eyes, on the US side. To haul them up & let them down, He would only ne need a small single sheaved pulley at the head of the pillars, this would also assist gathering in the fabric swag to behind the pillars.

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It is probably me. I have yet to get my head around this facebook thingy.
I have the same problem on there with the 'amdram.co.uk' group one understanding it?
I'm glad you got it sorted & so is gaafa!

I do have a facebook account but as usual "I'm not young enought to know how to use it"?