About The Play

Told almost entirely via text messages, The Burdens is a dark, family comedy about how technology helps keep us close, while still enabling us to keep our distance. It’s sometimes easier to type something than it is to say it face to face. But please, be careful of auto-correct. It can be murder.

Design Process

My goal was to aid in the comedy throughout the play while also helping set locations. Unless intending to create an absurd and hilarious environment for the scene, the team chose to keep each location as minimal as possible so I added some light hearted head and tails to scenes.. We also added some fun stings and sfx to really help drive the comedy. In contrast to all of this, to drive the dramatic sections there was some underscoring and more intense transitions.