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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

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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 h.

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