## Text Encoding Initiative

### The XML Version of the TEI Guidelines

# <performance>

`<performance>` | contains a section of front or back matter describing how a dramatic piece is to be performed in general or how it was performed on some specific occasion.
Attributes | Global attributes and those inherited from dramafront

Example

    <performance>
       <p>
          <rs type="place">Gateway Theatre, Edinburgh</rs>,
          <date>6 September 1948</date>
          <castList>
             <castItem> <role>Anath Bithiah</role>
                        <actor>Athene Seyler</actor>
                <!-- ... -->
             </castItem>
             <castItem> <role>Shendi</role>
                        <actor>Robert Rietty</actor>
             </castItem>
          </castList>
       </p>
       <p>Directed by <name>E. Martin Browne</name></p>
    </performance>

Example

    <performance>
     <p>Cast of the original production at the
      <rs type="place">Savoy Theatre, London,</rs>
      on <date>September 24, 1907</date>
      <castList>
       <castItem>Colonel Hope : Mr A.E.George</castItem>
       <!-- ... -->
      </castList>
     </p>
    </performance>

Module | Declared in file teidram2; Base tag set for performance texts: enabled by TEI.drama
Class | dramafront
Data Description | contains paragraphs and an optional cast list only.

May contain

ab addSpan alt altGrp anchor argument bibl biblFull biblStruct byline camera caption castList cb certainty cit closer dateline delSpan docAuthor docDate eTree entry entryFree epigraph event fLib figure fs fsLib fvLib fw gap graph head index interp interpGrp join joinGrp kinesic l label lb lg lg1 lg2 lg3 lg4 lg5 link linkGrp list listBibl milestone move note opener p pause pb q quote respons salute shift signed sound sp span spanGrp stage superEntry table tech termEntry timeline trailer tree u view vocal witDetail witList writing

May occur within | back front

Declaration

    <!ELEMENT performance %om.RR; ((%m.divtop; | %m.Incl;)*,
      ((%component;), (%m.Incl;)*)+, ((%m.divbot;), (%m.Incl;)*)*)>
    <!ATTLIST performance
          %a.global;>

See further | 10.1.3 Records of Performances; 10.1 Front and Back Matter

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