The MIT seal, with some modifications. (Image courtesy of MIT Theatre Department.)
Instructor(s)
Karen Perlow
Leslie Cocuzzo Held
Michael Katz
Sara Brown
MIT Course Number
21M.606
As Taught In
Spring 2009
Level
Undergraduate
Course Description
Course Description
Offered in the spring and fall terms, Introduction to Stagecraft is a hands-on course that gets students working with the tools and techniques of theatrical production in a practical way. It is not a design course but one devoted to artisanship. Among the many remarkable final projects that have been proposed and presented at the end of the course have been a Renaissance hourglass blown in the MIT glass shop and set into a frame turned on our set shop lathe; a four harness loom built by a student who then wove cloth on it; a number of chain mail tunics and coifs; a wide variety of costume and furniture pieces and electrified period lighting fixtures.
