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Analysis of Dead and Buried

            The play helps communicate how relationships are two sided. It also helps illustrate how people come from different walks of life. Several examples of how this was illustrated throughout the play is when Purdue lies to Bid about where she's staying and why she's there. When if she would have told her she was living in the woman's home may have offered her a place to live sooner. Also, when Bid did what she thought was best by letting her ex-husband take her daughter away It seemed like the best option. However, when you saw it from Purdue's point of view, as a daughter who was left behind it didn't seem to be the best solution because of the emotional effects it had on her.
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             One of the design techniques used in this play is the use of costume design. Costumes are the most personal element of design. They help provide background and depth to a character by hinting to their status, occupation, and other aspects of their persona. These costumes help define the characters such as Bid; the designer used pressed well kept pants to show how Bid has came from a military background. She looks very put together which goes back to all the procedures she had to follow by being in the mortuary unit of the marines. With Purdue they show how she's had a rough and tumble life constantly on the move with crumpled up clothes and a lot of pockets. These to are a perfect example, almost polar opposites, of the different sides of a relationship, and different backgrounds.
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             The second most prominent design technique in my mind was the use of the lighting and sound throughout the play. The light and sound is one of the more subtle ways that the director is able to engross the audience into the scenario they have unfolding before them. During this rendition of Dead and Buried the lighting coordinator used a blue lighting to show a night time scene and would use dappling to illustrate a moon shining through leafs.


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