Resistance on the national stage : theater and politics in late new order Indonesia / Michael H. Bodden.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bodden, Michael.

Series:

Research in international studies. Southeast Asia series ; no. 123.

Ohio University research in international studies. Southeast Asia series ; no. 123

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theater--Political aspects--Indonesia.

Theater.

Theater--Indonesia--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (405 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens : Ohio University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Resistance on the National Stage analyzes the ways in which, between 1985 and 1998, modern theater practitioners in Indonesia contributed to a rising movement of social protest against the long-governing New Order regime of President Suharto. It examines the work of an array of theater groups and networks from Jakarta, Bandung, and Yogyakarta that pioneered new forms of theater-making and new themes that were often presented more directly and critically than previous groups had dared to do. Michael H. Bodden looks at a wide range of case studies to show how theater contributed to and helped

Contents:

The modern national theater and the Indonesian new order state

Indonesian grassroots theater : Arena Teater, rural development, and the travails of creating a media for the people

Asas Tunggal and laughter in the mosque : Indonesian Islamic theater on the national stage

Teater Sae, Teater Kubur, and avant-garde performances of urban alienation

The limits of Bahasa Indonesia and Teater Payung Hitam's "theater of pain" : crisis of representation of the nation and political allegory

Workers' theater and theater about workers in 1990's Indonesia

Staged openness : theater and censorship in Indonesia's 1990's era of Keterbukaan.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780896804692

0896804690

OCLC:

884016840