. I want to use JSON-LD to provide

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I have a website that lists movie showtimes, example.com/.
I want to use JSON-LD to provide information about ScreeningEvent (from Schema.org).

I'd like to index events presented on movie specific pages, e.g. https:/example.com/movies/baby-driver-2017-2257838. The problem is that the content of the page is geolocation specific, i.e. you are going to see one content if you open the page in London and a different content if you open the page in Birmingham, etc.

How would I include JSON-LD on this page about the ScreeningEvent?
Do I need to create location specific sub-URLs for the movie?, e.g. example.com/movies/baby-driver-2017-2257838/london-w10 Do I need to create date specific sub-URLs for date?, e.g. example.com/movies/baby-driver-2017-2257838/london-w10/2017-06-28

The question is how to expose this data to Google in a way that would make sense. If example.com/movies/baby-driver-2017-2257838 is going to list all the events for the selected movie, for all of the locations and all of the dates, thats going to be a very long JSON-LD feed.

Technically speaking, it would be a valid approach – if Google finds events on the page and manages to correlate the event data (location) with the user data (location) then it could determine the content as relevant/ irrelevant to the user. Once user hits the page he will be displayed the relevant results. Win-win. But, the reality is that Google is not that smart at the moment (it will think I am flooding it with all/ any events) and that's what the user will be given, i.e. low relevance score. Plus, it would make the document size unreasonably large.