The Symbolism Of Colors In Fugitive Song's

From Athens to Broadway, the simultaneous presence of wardrobe and makeup is used to reveal each character’s narrative in the play. By concealing the body with a costume, the actor’s former identity is buried so that the character’s new essence can emerge. For this reason, costumes are the most legitimizing aspect of a play. Police uniforms, metal name tags, black suits, mullets, and graduation robes alike are just some everyday costumes worn by ordinary people to send out a message without the need of words. In this same manner, it is through the incorporation of clothes, makeup, hairstyles, accessories, and colors that plays are able to legitimize a time, place, and mood for the audience. In this way, costumes serve as a form of visual deception that in return allow characters to come alive. Have the colors someone was wearing ever lead you to make assumptions about their character? In many ways color serves as communication tool, that has the power to unconsciously alter the way one views and associates. When watching Fugitive Song’s, I was especially intrigued by Gavin, whose all black costume perfectly represented the play’s mysterious journey into the unknown. …show more content…
However, by additionally incorporating a loose and long coat over his binding clothes, Gavin’s character is now granted a sense of protection and liberation. Thus, the person he used to be is hidden to foreshadow his journey ahead.This notion was further communicated through the use of accessories. Behind a camera lens, Gavin is now able to place himself in the picture of all the places he longed to be when he worked as a photo developer. His combat boots, served to embody the long battle that he must walk through alone. Even in the end, the bag he carried was used to magnify the metaphoric burden he disposed of in the conclusion of his