We went on a college trip to southampton where we saw the performance 'Beautiful burnout' by the company Frantic Assembly. It was about boxing and showed the difficult training leading up to the title fight. They used minimal staging, they had a raised rotating stage block. They also had a washing machine and fridge which rose from the block for the mothers scenes. Additionally to add to the boxing training scenes they had 2 punch bags on a pully system which they could pull onto stage when needed. It was a multirole performance, performed by about 8 people who took on various different roles. The performance used physical theatre, mainly to show their exercise routines in boxing. They used very upbeat loud music when they did their insync routines to build atmosphere. They had tv screens on the back wall in which they showed different images for example when they were doing their routines they showed a stopwatch. As for lighting they used strobe lighting, over-head white and blue lights and floor lighting.
I really enjoyed the performance, even though i don't really know a lot about boxing or have ever really been a fan on it Frantic Assemblys energetic take on it made me enjoy it. I especially liked how they presented the training, it made me as an audience member want to get up and exercise with them! i think the actors and actresses used fit very well with the specific parts, they were all very fit and it showed me how in shape you need to be to be a boxer.
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