Performance Text

What is the mediating factor between the dramatic text (DT) and the performance text (PT)?

• Production Text

• Performance Codes

• Theatre Conventions

• Performance Potential

What is the fundamental role of the PT?

• To create a virtual performance text (VPT)

• To make the potential of the DT obvious in a concrete way

• To eliminate a considerable part of the schematicism of the DT

• To record/describe the theatre performance

What is the PT's role in relation to the dramatic text?

• To create a virtual performance text (VPT)

• To fill the places of indetermination

• To eliminate a considerable part of the schematicism of the DT

• To record/describe the theatre performance

What is the PT's role in relation to the performance potential?

• To make the potential of the DT obvious in a concrete way

• To record/describe the theatre performance

• To eliminate a considerable part of the schematicism of the DT

• To create a virtual performance text (VPT)

What is the PT's role in relation to the convergence of potential performance elements?

• To make the potential of the DT obvious in a concrete way

• To create a virtual performance text (VPT)

• To eliminate a considerable part of the schematicism of the DT

• To record/describe the theatre performance

What is the role of semioticians in relation to the theatre performance?

• To create a virtual performance text (VPT)

• To eliminate a considerable part of the schematicism of the DT

• To record/describe the theatre performance

• To make the potential of the DT obvious in a concrete way

What is the particular nature of the PT?

• Monocoded

• Pluricoded

• Bicoded

• Tricoded

What are performance codes?

• Conventions specific to theatre

• Conventions common to all performance arts

• Conventions that make it possible to link determined contents to determined elements of expressive systems

• Conventions emerging from a given performance

What are theatre conventions?

• Rules of theatre production in the achievement of fiction

• Conventions that emerge from a given performance

• Technical codes of a precise theatre practice or of a given author or genre

• Technical codes requiring a particular apprenticeship and conscious decoding

What are unique conventions?

• Conventions that emerge from a given performance

• Conventions specific to theatre

• Conventions common to all performance arts

• Conventions that make it possible to link determined contents to determined elements of expressive systems