About the set

There are six plays in this series. They all take place in the same motel room, on the outskirts of an unremarkable city. Some characters appear in more than one play, most are just passing through. The aim of the set is to be as uninteresting and anonymous as possible, whilst in its detail conveying the proper sense of time and place. The daytime sky has stripes of blurred clouds or airplane vapour-trails. At night there is UV lighting that highlights the trails left by orange automobile lights or clouds at sunset. I chose the name VELA because it wouldn't suggest anything to the audience. To me it suggests the 1950s, the atomic era, something exotic, something a motel-owner might have thought tempting. But that's just me.
I don't know if there ever was a Vela Motel, but there should have been.

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