Assistance
If you’ve found a mistake on the site, please do
not
get
in touch – create an account and correct the mistake yourself!
Similarly, if you have an observation about a production, or a photograph
concerning something on the site, please do add it to the site directly to
benefit everyone.
- My local theatre is missing; I’m missing; This famous actor/ play/ theatre/ production is missing!
-
Theatricalia
is based around productions – if a play has not been and is not going to be performed,
or if a theatre has never or is not going to host a production, it does not yet need to be on the site. To add a production,
follow the simple interface
(you can also follow links from any
existing place or play page), and you can add any missing play,
place, or people along the way.
- What do I do if there are two entries for the same play/ place/ production company/ person?
- Please use the duplicate link on one entry, and then the button that appears on the duplicate entry, to let me know about the duplicate.
I will merge one into the other, hopefully without losing any information.
- I have some theatre programmes, but I don’t have the time to enter all the information. How can I help?
- Please
upload programme pictures
to our Theatricalia
Flickr group. That way, someone else might have the time to add the information. Every little helps.
- I have a database of theatre productions that I would like to put on Theatricalia – is that possible?
- It is indeed, and thank you – please
get in touch
and we’ll get it on the site
without you having to type it all in again!
- How does the search work? I typed
Katie Stevens
and it knew I meant
Katy Stephens
.
- It’s magic, in the Arthur C. Clarke sense.
Actually, it involves a nifty thing called homophone matching
.
If you’re interested, the algorithm I use is available
on my GitHub
.
- The space between the “C” and the “Clarke” in the previous question is smaller than a normal space. You’ve gone a bit overboard typographically, haven’t you?
- No. Websites can try and follow
The Elements of Typographic Style
; it’s nicer.
I am happy every time I see the profile pages using the possessive apostrophe correctly;
that dates are all printed prettily; that the only ' and " on this site will be if a
play title includes feet and inches (and at that point I’ll have to write some code for that).
Please make sure your contributions use correct spelling and grammar. ☺
- You’re missing a country from your list?
- To paraphrase
the United Nations list of countries
:
“The designations employed and the presentation of country or area
names in this list do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on
the part of [us] concerning
the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or of its
authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries.”
- What is your privacy policy?
-
- Registering on the site
-
If you choose to register in order to contribute (thanks), your provided name,
username, biography, and website (if given) are publicly available on your
profile page. We will never give or sell any other details to anyone else,
unless we are obliged to by law. Any information you provide in the form of
production information or observations is public. Please get in touch if you wish
to delete your account, or see the information we hold.
- Information in listings
-
Information on theatrical productions is of historical and research value.
The General Data Protection Regulation gives you the right to object to our
processing of your personal information and to ask us to stop processing it.
However, it also gives us the right to continue to process it if we can
demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing that override your
interests, rights and freedoms. To exercise your right to object, you can
get in touch, giving specific reasons why you are objecting to the processing of
your personal data. These reasons should be based upon your particular
situation; processing for the purposes of historical research or archiving
is allowed unless it is likely to cause substantial damage or substantial distress
(Data Protection Act 2018, 19(2)).
- Legal basis for processing
-
Data is being processed under the legal basis 6(1)(f) ? legitimate interests.
We assert that we have a legitimate interest in providing an archive of
theatrical productions, for historical research and archival purposes.
- I have a bug report or feature request
- Please do
get in touch
.