Persons engaged in TheaterEvents

[Harald-Effenberg]

Hi!

Currently there are no Persons allowed in TheaterEvents but attendees, organizers and performers.

But usually the perfomers in a TheaterEvent are actors - why can't we markup them as actors?
In fact, TheaterEvents would be rather boring without actors. And they would in most cases be very chaotic without a director.
Actors and directors are allowed in Movies and TVSeries - why not in TheaterEvents?

And there should be at least an itemprop "contributor" for all the other people who engage themselves for the success of a TheaterEvent: stage designers, costume designers, makeup artists, light engineers, sound engineers...

JM2C
Harry

[Dataliberate]

Harry,

Much of what you are asking for is what you would expect from a CreativeWork or subtype — I notice we have not got a stage based set of CreativeWork subtypes, which might be worth progressing in parallel to TV / Movie subtypes (Play, Show, Musical, etc.) in the way you indicate.

My interpretation of TheaterEvent is that it is mainly about the where/when aspects, with its workPerformed property identify the work(s) that are performed at the event.

I suspect that any proposals you might have for theatre and or live performance oriented enhancements would be received with interest.

~Richard

On 17 May 2015, at 16:14, Harald Effenberg <notifications@github.commailto:notifications@github.com> wrote:

Hi!

Currently there are no Persons allowed in TheaterEvents but attendees, organizers and performers.

But usually the perfomers in a TheaterEvent are actors - why can't we markup them as actors?
In fact, TheaterEvents would be rather boring without actors. And they would in most cases be very chaotic without a director.
Actors and directors are allowed in Movies and TVSeries - why not in TheaterEvents?

And there should be at least an itemprop "contributor" for all the other people who engage themselves for the success of a TheaterEvent: stage designers, costume designers, makeup artists, light engineers, sound engineers...

JM2C
Harry

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[Harald-Effenberg]

Hi Richard,

thank you for your answer!

I thought about the when/where-thing before I posted this issue, but on the other hand: There are perfomers, aren't they?

And often people go to a TheaterEvent because of the well-known name of a famous director - so this can be an important criterion of the Event, like the names of the performers.

And if there are performers and directors, there should be contributors, too, I think.

Or the performers should be separated from the Event, which then focusses only on the ascpects of time and space, and be only integrated in CreativeWork. They could become Perfomers with - if I could do a wish - a userfriendly itemprop="characterName" without the necessity to be embedded within a PerformanceRole (which neither Google nor Bing seem to be able to process correctly).

Kind regards
Harry

[danbri]

Allowing 'actor', 'director', 'contributor' (e.g. with a Role) on these kinds of Event (i.e. TheaterEvent) sounds plausible and useful to me. Perhaps 'contributor' could be attached at a higher level, e.g. to Event. At some point we'll be asked about Action too, I'm sure; but let's ignore those for now.

Since we have FestivalEvent, VisualArtsEvent, LiteraryEvent, PublicationEvent my inclination is to attach actor/director/contributor at the Event level. @vholland any thoughts?

[vickitardif]

It sounds useful to me. It might be nice to consider all of the changes to Event together. Quickly skimming, that would include issue #447, issue #445, and issue #406.

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