Resistance on the National Stage : Theater and Politics in Late New Order Indonesia.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (388 pages)
- Research in International Studies, Southeast Asia Series ; v.123 .
- Research in International Studies, Southeast Asia Series .
Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- One: The Modern National Theater and the Indonesian New Order State -- Two: Indonesian Grassroots Theater: Arena Teater, Rural Development, and the Travails of Creating a Media For the People -- Three: Asas Tunggal and Laughter in the Mosque: Indonesian Islamic Theater on the National Stage -- Four: Teater Sae, Teater Kubur, and Avant-Garde Performances of Urban Alienation -- Five: The Limits of Bahasa Indonesia and Teater Payung Hitam's "Theater of Pain": Crisis of Representation of the Nation and Political Allegory -- Six: Workers' Theater and Theater About Workers ins Indonesia -- Seven: Staged Openness: Theater and Censorship in Indonesia's s Era of Keterbukaan -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Resistance on the National Stage analyzes the ways in which, between 1985 and 1998, modern theater pracxadtitioners in Indonesia contributed to a rising movement of social protest against the long-governing New Order regime of President Suharto.