Vocal Awareness/Characterisation: Beautiful Burnout

Performance with Bubu, Jorge, Shane, and Chandler
Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiD9h3fF_h8&feature=youtu.be
In one of our lessons, we looked at a short piece of text which came from the script of Beautiful Burnout. We looked at the which characters were in it and also what was going on in the part of the script we were looking at. We performed Scene 14 'Three Favourite Sons', which is the part in the story where Bobby is talking to all of the boxers about turning professional, everyone except for Dina the only female boxer in the gym.

We had to perform this in groups. For this performance, I played the character of Bobby Burgess (the coach); Shane played Ainsley Binney; Bubu played Dina Massie; Jorge played Cameron Burns; and Chandler played Ajay Chopra. With the play being set in Scotland within the play, I decided to put on a Scottish accent to make my character more realistic. In terms of my vocals while on stage, I said a lot of my dialogue in quite a serious tone because these were the points where Bobby was talking to the other boxers about becoming professional. I also spoke some of my dialogue in quite a harsh/angry tone, which at this point was when Bobby was losing his patience with the other boxers. All of my dialogue was said in a low pitch. In terms of pace, I found that the dialogue which was more serious e.g. becoming professional, was spoken at a more fast pace; and the less serious dialogue e.g. I think in terms of volume, it is similar to what happens with the pace (how serious the dialogue is).

In terms of physicality, the way I stood on stage was quite tall and broad which I thought showed superiority over everyone else in the gym. I thought that in terms of my emotions, I had to be quite strict and tough when talking to the other boxers so I got across to them how serious turning professional is. In terms of my vocals, I thought that my voice had to be well projected throughout the performance to once again show in my emotions the seriousness of turning professional.