How useful is the pavis questionnaire in facilitating analysis?Give your answer in reference to your response to the Shunt production 'Tropicana'.

How useful is the Pavis Questionnaire in facilitating analysis? Patrice Pavis devised his questionnaire as a tool to deconstruct performance into its component parts to give focus for close analysis. It takes the form of questions, on the most part divided into more specific subsections, about artistic and technical decisions and the performances relationship to text. The questionnaire itself is broad in its scope, in that every production system is included. By including the seemingly …

…and The Lift Controller produce a cohesive performance out of the context of either comparing or contrasting with the vaults. Although it could be argued that the final two questions could be used to cover these concerns, their lack of specificity would not provide adequate stimulus for analysis. Bibliography Pavis, Patrice 'Pavis questionnaire', from 'Theatre Analysis: Some Questions and a Questionnaire', New Theatre Quarterly 1/2:208-12, 1985. Shunt Theatre Company 'Tropicana', live performance, 2nd and 9th October 2004