Just to clarify because I’m lost. You believe these to be actors that are taking on pseudonyms in their job but these are not stage names?
But you believe that they are performing as you are interacting with them?
But this is not a standard type of performance: TV, radio, movie, stage?
So like actors to fill out a party? Or a funeral? Or a protest?
And these pseudonyms are in no way tied into their character like Dean Linquent as a teen-age punk or Candy Striper as a young nurse or Cinnamon Roll working at a Hostess Outlet?
It’s certainly not TV or radio or movie, in that they stand right there while talking with you. But calling it a stage play would seem weird; after all, if they were credited for the performance then I’d actually know whether I was being told their real name.
I mean, that misses it closer — in that (a) I don’t think I’d call any of those a TV or radio or movie or stage performance, and (b) it’s presumably someone who gives a fake name while never bothering to reveal their real name to the, uh, audience.
So not a stage play as in they are on a stage with a proscenium arch and the audience is seated away from them?
Is the “performance” something mundane like filling out the crowd an opening night at a gallery or being ‘fans’ at a red carpet event? Or would it be considered performance art where the actors are expected to stand out of the crowd? Like loudly proclaiming, “I don’t even OWN a tv.” while at the above mentioned gallery opening?
ETA: I think I’m close. It’s a performance where actors are expected to blend into a crowd with not-unusual names so you’re never sure if you are interacting with an actor or not. Is that it? If so, do we need to guess the event/setting?
You have no real doubt as to which people, in the crowd, are like you — by which I mean they aren’t putting on an act for anyone, and aren’t working for the employer, or whatever — and you know that the person in question, who’s clearly an employee rather than a mere audience member, is telling you (and the rest of the crowd, which they’re pointedly not blending into) stuff like where to go and when, in their official capacity as someone who’s earning a paycheck by relaying those instructions.
Honestly, at this point I’m thinking I should just plainly state what the venue — and the whole experience — was: to directly zero in on the key question, instead of leaving folks asking about the aspects I’m apparently doing a lousy job of indirectly narrowing down. Should I?
Not nonhuman; they were, uh, ‘costumed’ like the other ride attendants at the amusement park, and — if the need arose — could’ve presumably walked away from what they were doing at Point A to instead raise no eyebrows by giving anodyne instructions, while clad in that same attire, over at the roller coaster at Point B: don’t board it yet; okay, board it now; and remember, keep your hands inside the vehicle until it comes to a complete stop.
Another question of clarification:
Was it clear that these were actors and the question was are they using pseudonyms?
Or is the question were there actors and if so, which of the workers were the actors? And possibly none of them were?
Was the amusement park in the Los Angeles area?
Might they be actors “performing” in hope of getting noticed by someone in show business?
Were they actors hired by the park to act?
Let me put it this way: I just now mentioned how they could’ve left what they were doing at Point A to instead give instructions at the roller coaster over at Point B; and, before going on the ride at Point A, it just so happens that I rode the roller coaster at Point B. And if you asked me if the similarly-attired ride attendants at Point B were actors, I’d have said something like, “uh, I guess they were delivering some well-rehearsed lines while dressed as ride attendants who are employed by the park; that said, I think they are ride attendants who are employed by the park — and I have no reason to think they aren’t using their real names.”
And if you asked me about the ride at Point A, my reply would’ve been, “uh, I guess they were delivering some well-rehearsed lines while dressed as ride attendants who are employed by the park; that said, I think they are ride attendants who are employed by the park — but I think they aren’t using their real names.”
I don’t know whether they had any hopes of getting noticed by anyone in show business, but this wasn’t in California; as for whether they were hired to act — well, my conclusion is that they’re being paid to smoothly deliver scripted lines under a fictional name, so I don’t see how I could say “no.”
Was this, to the best of your knowledge, the way the place normally operated?
Or would it have been for a special event, such as Halloween or a promotion for a charity or a movie, etc, etc, etc.?
Going meta here for a sec
Is the way you’re answering by telling stories (and that’s part of what’s confusing me) rather than just answering yes or no to questions like
Was it clear that these were actors and the question was are they using pseudonyms?
Or is the question were there actors and if so, which of the workers were the actors? And possibly none of them were?
part of the lateralness of the puzzle?
Is that mode of response you being “an actor” in this question?
Was the amusement park a permanent structure? Or was it traveling like a circus?
It’s not some meta part of the puzzle; I’m doing it because I don’t want to give a misleading “yes” or “no”. If it’s not helping — and apparently it’s not — I can try to stick as close as possible to strict “yes” or “no” answers, while hoping you don’t later cry foul.