The master's thesis Event in the Town of Goga between the years 1980 and 2015 aims to present the adherence to and deviation from the literary source material, based on the example of four performances from the years 1980, 1995, 2001 and 2015, and therefore determine whether the time period when a play is staged plays a significant role in the production of a stage performance. The relationships between the text and performances will be determined based on potential changes to the storyline, dialogue and individual characters. As a performance is not only a visual but also a spoken realisation of a certain text, this thesis will also focus on the analysed performances’ choice of language variety and speed of the characters' articulation in individual excerpts. The theoretical part of the thesis will focus on the author, the work and its reception in the literary world, as well as on individual theatrical elements, such as stage directions, the stage and language of the theatre. The practical part of the thesis will, based on the viewing of the performances’ recordings, present each of the chosen performances of An Event in the Town of Goga in detail, including their distinctive characteristics and parallels with the literary source material. The speed of articulation and the characters’ speech in certain excerpts of the performances will be calculated and determined with the use of Praat, a computer program for speech analysis. A comparison of important characters from Grum’s two-act play will conclude the practical part of the thesis.
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