The east attic of Palmer Hall is not a conventional theater space. Then again, drama Professor Andrew Manley was not going for conventional when he came up with the idea for “Beckett Rooms,” presented in December 2004.

After hunting for a series of rooms, Manley remembered the unoccupied Palmer attic. He decided to use it as an element of the production instead of a backdrop, adopting site-specific theater. He molded each of the 14 short plays of Samuel Beckett to a former classroom, now darkened and mostly unadorned. For two hours, 28 student actors continuously performed the plays — some interactively, some passively — as observers wandered room-to-room, never knowing when each play was beginning or ending.

“I wanted to put them in a relatively normal setting, i.e., a room, not on stage,” said Manley, who has experimented with Beckett plays in the past. “It is an experiment in one way of presenting Beckett plays…not the definitive way, but a way.”