Voice

Voice is very important with 39 steps because due to the fact that everybody is multi-rolling. Voice will be one of the main things that will differentiate between the characters. The fact that the two clowns (or three in our act) play so many different roles makes it difficult to the audience to see who they are playing so they will have to have a complete different voice for each character especially during the train scene where they change within seconds and they are only changing the hat that they are wearing. Voice also comes into characterisation to make sure that it is over the top and funny, voice extremities have to be used to see a clear contrast and to make each character funny and memorable to the audience especially as some then come back in later in the play.