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survery
survey according to (Counsell , Colin and Wolf, Laurie eds. "Performance Analysis - an introductory coursebook", Routledge, Abingdon/UK, 2001
- General discussion of performance
- what holds elements of performance together?
- relationship between systems of staging
- coherence or incoherence
- aesthetic principles of the production
- what do you find disturbing about the production; strong moments or weak, boring moments?
- Scenography
- spatial forms: urban architectural, scenic, gestural, etc.
- relationship between audience space and acting space
- system of colors and their connotations
- principles of organization of space
- relationship between off-stage and on-stage
- links between space utilized and fiction of the staged dramatic text
- Lighting system
- Stage properties
- type, function, relationship to space and actors' bodies
- Costumes
- how they work; relationship to actors' bodies
- Actors' performances
- individual or conventional style of acting?
- relation between actor and group
- relationship between text and body, between actor and role
- quality of gestes and mime
- quality of voices
- how dialogues develop
- Function of music and sound effects
- Pace of performance
- overall pace
- pace of certain signifying systems
- steady of borke pace?
- Interpretation of story-line in performance
- what story is being told?
- what kind of dramaturgical choices have been made?
- what are ambiguities in performance and what are pints of eplanation?
- how is plot structured?
- how is story constructed by actors and staging?
- what is genre of dramatic text?
- Text in performance
- main features of translation
- what role is given to dramatic text in production?
- relationship between text and image
- Audience
- where does performance take place?
- what expectation did you have of performance?
- how did audience react?
- role of spectator in production of meaning
- How to notate (photograph and film) this production
- how to notate performance technically
- which images have you retained?
- What cannot be put into signs
- what did not make sense in your interpretation of the production?
- what was not reducible to signs and meaning (and why)?
- misc
- are there any special problems that need examining?
- any comments, suggestions for further categories for the questionnaire and the production