Abstract
The purpose of this study was to identify the epistemic or knowledge practices of theater production professionals within the framework of cultural–historical activity theory. The script of the play was considered to be the principal mediating artifact used by theater professionals to accomplish the object of telling the story of the play. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 15 theater production professionals on two separate productions of the same play. Data analysis comprised identifying instances of the script in the role of mediating artifact, as well as specific epistemic practices. The script has affordances as both work and as a work in the eyes of theater production professionals. Seven epistemic practices related to how the script is used were identified: reading, classifying and inscribing, gathering, representing, learning, remembering, and standardizing.
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