by Lee Hall
Directed by Keith Myres, Set Designed by Alex Marker, Lighting Designed by Carl Knapper

This play was the opener to the 2006 Summer Rep Season at the Lyceum Theatre, Crewe. I had to produce four different sets in four weeks, with a day-and-a-half turn around between each show.

Most of the colours and patterns used on the set were a nod to the style of Elvis' early glory days in the late 1950's and early 1960's. However, the kitchen had been decorated "before Dad's accident" and has subsequently run to seed.

Both the director and I wanted a suitably impressive Las Vegas style ending to the show. In the final number, Elvis enters through the smoke filled kitchen door, the black drape behind the flats was revealed as a star-cloth, two mirror balls were dropped in and finally the whole star cloth was flown out to reveal the cyclorama which the Lighting Designer lit with moving lights.