Okay, so two closely related questions on Ultimate Combat's Performance Combat rules...
The First
Performance Combat has a list of triggers for Performance Combat checks, which take various sorts of actions. The Free action checks can be taken as Swift actions.
Performing Combatant allows you to treat any combat as a Performance Combat, to make use of your Performance Feats outside of the stage.
Performance Feats give you bonuses if you take your Performance Combat checks as Swift actions, which is why you'd want to take the free action triggers as Swift action checks.
Master Combat Performer allows you to take Performance Combat checks as a Free action.
Does this mean that if you take a Performance Combat check as a Free action instead of a Swift action (or Free action instead of a Swift action instead of a Free action... you follow?), you don't get the benefit of any Performance Feat?
If so, what's the point? Just to get those few Performance Combat checks which are Swift actions by default as Frees?
Why would it have the feat which allows you to make use of your Performance Feats in regular combat as a pre-req, if it has nothing to do with using your Performance Feats in regular combat?
The Second
Dramatic Display and Savage Display both provide an untyped bonus that lasts until the end of your next turn.
If you make the check again before the end of your next turn, do these stack?
For example: You have 3 attacks. Your first attack crits, and you make your Performance Combat check, gaining +2 to your attack rolls until the end of your next turn from Dramatic Display. You make your next two attacks with the bonus.
Your next turn starts, you make your first attack, still with your +2 bonus, and crit again. You make your check again. Do you make your next two attacks still with just the +2 bonus, or +4?
Lé bump?
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1. From Ultimate Combat: "Making a performance check as a free action does not allow a character to take any special action granted to him by a performance feat (unless he has the Master Combat Performer feat), and making a performance combat check as an immediate action or as no action never allows a character to perform a special action granted by a performance feat (even if he does have the Master Combat Performer feat)." So yes you can.
2. Even though they are untyped, they are a bonus from the same source so they would not stack. However the criting in the second turn would extend the bonus to the third turn.
Obliged to you, sir!