Week 10
Looking at how performances are analysed. I believe that watching pieces and how they are viewed is entirely subjective. Emotion is such a vital role in how one would respond to a piece. Looking at the reading and then disscussion with peers i created a list of things which i think allow u to create a emotive analysis with understanding from technical analysis.
Dramatic text and performance text
- relationship between the original script and performance script:
dramaturgical changes: cuts, transpositions, additions, substitutions
faithful version, adaptation, free version,
- what interpretation(s) of the play does the performance version offer through these changes?
- if translation: criticism of translation,
is the language apt for the actors delivery?
does the translation bring features of the story closer to the audience's culture or closer to the original culture?
Performance space:
in what kind of space is the production performed?
conventional theatre,
Stage space:
- mode: proscenium stage, thrust stage, staging in the round, processional, mansion staging
- relationship between audience and performance area
- open or close, uniform or multiple
References:
- mimetic or conventional
- archeological or achronic
- Relationship between space as indicated in the dramatic text and the one used in the performance (faithful, free interpretation, adaptation)
Any values (poetic, symbolic) added?
Changes during performance
Lighting:
- system of lighting
- its function
- colors
- symbolic values
- relationship between lights and space (tridimensional or flat)
Props:
- kind, origin, how many
- real or figurative; the degree of conventionality
- functions: instrumental, to provide atmosphere, symbolic, to ease action or denouement
- relationship between props and characters
- changes during performance
Actors:
- types, how many, doubling
- external appearance: physical traits, costumes, make-up,
- mime, gestures, movement
- aural craft: vocal delivery, intonation,
- movement of characters on the stage
- grouping of characters
- the spatial distinction between characters
Sound: music, sound effects
- kinds
- function
Staging (mise en scene) and rhythm
- how all the systems are integrated
- how action develops
Audience:
- attitude, reactions, atmosphere
- reception,
- critics reviews
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