Questionnaire

A questionnaire for primary school children to help us focus our production for the target audience.

1) What's your favourite story?

2) Who's your favourite character?

3) What's your favourite type of story? (funny, scary, adventure etc)

4) What's your favourite part of a musical? (dancing, singing or acting)

5) What do you think makes a good story?

The word "story" is used so that the children don't focus on musicals, as the questionnaire will be given to children that attend a musical theatre group. But this also offers us the opportunity to see what stories they may remember from their younger years, with the possibility of us then being able to use their ideas and bring them to life on stage.

Characters are important so that we know what sort of characters and dynamics we would need for our production.

The type of story is put simply so that the children clearly understand what story they are asked for, and it makes it easier for us to then see what type of show is the most popular, comedies or adventures etc.

The musical question is posed so that we can see what interests young kids who are in to musical theatre, as we may be able to input some of these aspects into our own performance.

The final question (I feel that five questions covers the ground we need and doesn't take up too much of their time) will allow the kids to expand any thoughts they have to further give us an idea of the production we should create for our target audience.