Set Design
Investigates the creation of set design for live performance. Students develop designs related to current production projects at MIT. Focuses on developing the designer's communication tools, particularly in the areas of visual research, 3-D digital model making, and design presentation. Examines the relationship of set design to theater architecture, emerging media technologies and dramaturgies of the 20th and 21st centuries. In addition to creating their own designs, students research, write about, and present the work and practice of a set designer. Lab fee required.
Spring 2005 · Design for the Theater: Scenery
This course will examine theory of scenic design as currently practiced, as well as historical traditions for use of performance space and audience/performer engagement. Four play scripts and one opera or dance theater piece will be designed after in-depth analysis; emphasis will be on the social, political and cultural milieu at the time of their creation, and now.
Readings
- ———. Strindberg: Five Plays . Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1983. ISBN: 9780520046986.
- Apollinaire, Guillaume. The Breasts of Tiresias. (First staged in 1917.)
- Cocteau, Jean. The Eiffel Tower Wedding Party. 1948.
- Lorca, Frederico Garcia. Blood Wedding: A Play. New York, NY: Faber & Faber, 1997. ISBN: 9780571190065.
- O’Neill, Eugene. Long Day’s Journey Into The Night. (Completed in 1940.) New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780300093056.
- Bartok, Bela (Text by Bela Balazs). Bluebeard’s Castle. (One Act Opera.)
Prerequisites & course information
Prereq: None U (Fall) 3-0-9 units. HASS-A
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- MIT OpenCourseWare ↗Spring 2005
- MIT OCW calendar ↗
- MIT OCW readings ↗
- MIT OCW syllabus ↗
- Historical MIT OpenCourseWare offering. Named reading entries and schedule topics are automatically extracted from the linked source pages.