Live Performance

[adam3smith]

http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/27369/feature-request-adding-an-item-type-for-live-performances/#Item_3

Examples:
MLA:
Title. By Name of Author/Composer. Dir. Name of Director. Perf. Names
of Performers. Theatre, City. Date. Performance.

Hamlet. By William Shakespeare. Dir. John Gielgud. Perf. Richard
Burton. Shubert Theatre, Boston. 4 Mar. 1964. Performance.

Monash Harvard:
Bell, J (dir.) 2011, Much ado about nothing, by W Shakespeare, theatre performance, 8 April- 14 May 2011, Bell Shakespeare Company, Drama Theatre, Sydney Opera House, viewed 10 April 2011.

CMoS:

1. Jan Kurro, "Songs of Sondheim" (vocal performance, Her Majesty’s Theatre, Ballarat, May 6, 2008).

It might be possible to get close to this using Presentation/Event and expanding creator roles, but for MLA that might not do.

[bwiernik]

It looks like this could be handled in MLA fine with speech and expanded creator roles for writer, performer.

[dstillman]

Re: https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/comment/451454/#Comment_451454, happy to add this anytime (as we did Preprint and Standard) if we know the fields we want.

[aarblaster]

Thanks @dstillman. This is definitely a challenge. Presentation/event is probably the closest currently and what I've been modifying. I'm researching theatre lighting design and we use Harvard (York).
In text plays (live performance) are rendered as:

(Lynn & Jay, 2012)

In reference lists:

Lynn, J. & Jay, A. (2012, April 16). Yes, Prime Minister [Play]. Theatre Royal, York. Performers: Graham Seed and Michael Simkins. Director: Jonathan Lynn.

My understanding is the fields are as follows:
Author. (date). Title [performance-type], City. Performers/Creative Team.

The order and addition of the creative team does change depending on the specialisation. As does the names of the performers. The director is always included.
The following fields are useful and would work for MLA and Monash Harvard as identified by @adam3smith:

• Title:
• Performance Type:
• Author:
• Venue:
• City:
• Date:
• Company:
• Director:
• Set Designer:
• Lighting Designer:
• Sound Designer:
• Performer:
• Composer:
• Accessed:
• URL:

These fields could then be used for other live performance types as needed (see the musical performance (live) reference for Harvard (York) as well).

[bwiernik]

What roles do Lynn and Jay play in that production? Lynn appears to be the director--is Jay the playwright?

[adam3smith]

In terms of mapping from Zotero to CSL,
itemType: performance
performanceType: genre
date: event-date
author, director, performer, composer, accessed, URL, DOI all as named

I'm a bit skeptical about the extent to which set, lightning, and sound design should be part of the Zotero data model -- we just can't reasonably include the whole cast (e.g., for a musical, music director & choreographer would likely be more important than the designers etc.).

The one tricky question I see is venue & city. In CSL we only have event-place. I see why one would want to store (and potentially cite) these separately, but we don't have anything good in the data model and I'm wary of adding for just that purpose, so I think we'll either want to combine these into a single Zotero field or store separate fields and output those comma-delimited to event-place -- where users didn't like that, they could just omit one of the two.

@bwiernik Lynn & Jay wrote Yes, Prime Minister, i.e. both are authors.

[bwiernik]

I agree with the comma-delimited output of venue and city together to event-place

Another option would be to map venue to event-title, but that's not a great conceptual fit and I would prefer to reserve event-title for something like a festival where a performance occurred.

[adam3smith]

Since we're talking new item types, here's the proposal with mapped CSL types

itemType: performance
Title: title
Author: author
Director: director
Performer: performer
Composer: composer
Performance Type: genre
Venue: event-place
City: event-place (see above)
Date: event-date
Company: publisher
Accessed: accessed
URL: url
DOI: DOI
Citekey: citation-key
Archive: archive
Loc. in Archive:  archive_location

I'd like to start adding better archive fields to all item types so also would suggest

Archival collection: archive_collection
Archive location: archive_place

Not sure those are the right Zotero labels yes.

updated based on conversation below.

[bwiernik]

@adam3smith There is a separate CSL type event that's intended for exhibitions and workshops. I think they should be separate Zotero types

For Company, maybe CSL publisher? From what I see, they seem to be cited like a publisher, for example https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17450918.2012.679301

[adam3smith]

Agreed on not cramming exhibitions in there, thanks.

For company/publisher -- the linked article cites the RSC as a publisher for their web content, not for their performances, but I guess I could be convinced this is right for performances: people would think of "The RSC 2021 production of Hamlet" or "The Alvin Ailey 1970 production of Roaratorio" etc.

[adam3smith]

Updated the proposal above -- would be good if someone else looks at this, but looks good from my end.

[bwiernik]

Here's an example in a journal that publishes theater reviews--I think publisher still works well there https://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/11-1/revkwtn.html