Waktu Batu. Rumah yang Terbakar
(Time Stone. Our House is on Fire)
Feature | Theatre | Live Music | Multidisciplinary
By Teater Garasi/Garasi Performance Institute (Indonesia)
Date & Time | 27-28 July 2024, 8:30pm 27 July 2024 – Post-show Talk (30 minutes) |
Duration | 75 minutes without interval |
Venue | One Theatre Hall (formerly known as PenangPac) Indoor |
Age Limit | Recommended for audiences aged 13 years and above. |
Language | Performed in Indonesian with English subtitles. |
Wheelchair Users | The venue is wheelchair accessible. |
Description
As environmental destruction and climate change ravage the globe, can we do more than lament?
Waktu Batu. Rumah yang Terbakar (WB.RyT) is an intermedial performance that shatters perceptions of what theatre can be. An interplay between stage, cinematography and video game, audiences bear witness to the interplay of mythology, colonial history, capitalism and patriarchy in forming our ecological grief.
With a narrative based on Javanese mythology and history, WB.RyT invites audiences to delve into the intricate transitional situations of Indonesia’s contemporary society, rife with layers, cultural ruptures and environmental devastation.
Directed by prominent director Yudi Ahmad Tajudin in collaboration with writer and Ugoran Prasad, this latest version of Teater Garasi’s Waktu Batu involves collaboration with interdisciplinary artists such as Mella Jaarsma, DJ Y-Dra, pop-rock band Majelis Lidah Berduri, visual designers Deden Bulqini, Tomy Herseta and Tri Rimbawan, as well as nine intergenerational performers.
The house is on fire, so be prepared to plunge into its introspective flames.
Supported By
Directorate General of Culture, Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of Republic of Indonesia
Media Quotes
“Yogyakarta-based Teater Garasi has attempted, through successive productions, to represent Indonesia as a nation in all its complexity.” – Inside Indonesia
“[Teater Garasi break] the barriers of theatre as high art, fusing the modern and the traditional, and engaging a wide public in the power of performance; [highlighting] and celebrating the complex heterogeneous nature of Indonesian society.” – Prince Claus Fund Committee
Latecomers Policies
Latecomers will only be admitted no later than 15 minutes after the show starts.
Notes
This performance contains haze effects and high volume music in some scenes.
Credits
Director | Yudi Ahmad Tajudin
Assistant Director | Luna Kharisma
Dramaturg | Ugoran Prasad
Text for Performance | Andri Nur Latif, Gunawan Maryanto, Ugoran Prasad.
(Speech in the Kitchen Scene is an excerpt from “An interview with Silvia Federici” by interviewer Max Haiven, in Politics and Culture 2009, issue 2, special issue on Food & Sovereignty (Pages 26-27), translated into Indonesian by Evi Mariani)
Performer |
Ari Dwianto, Arsita Iswardhani, Enji Sekar, Erythrina Baskoro, Putri Lestari, Putu Alit, Panca Nugraha, Syamsul Arifin, Tomomi Yokosuka, Wijil Rachmadhani
Music Composer | Yennu Ariendra and Majelis Lidah Berduri
Scenographer | Tomy Herseta
Visual Projection Artist | Deden Bulqini
Video Game Visual Designer | Rimbawan Gerilya
Camera Director | A. Semali
Durga Body Creator | Mella Jaarsma
Costume Designer | Retno Ratih Damayanti
Lighting Designer & Technical Director | Ignatius Sugiarto
Multimedia System Engineer | Indra Fardiansyah
Sound Engineer | Yossy Herman Susilo
Assistant Lighting Designer | Fajar Okto
Assistant Sound Engineer | R. Bakhrudin Rosyd
Stage Manager | Gading Paksi
Set and Props | Miftakul Efendi
Stage Crew | Febrinawan Prestianto, Purwoko
Sound Crew | Santoso Teguh Suroto
English Translation for Subtitle | Landung Simatupang
Producer | Yudi Ahmad Tajudin
Production Manager | Lusia Neti Cahyani
Poster Image | Gilang Satmaka
Produced by Teater Garasi/Garasi Performance Institute
The presentation in George Town Festival is supported by:
Directorate General of Culture
Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of Republic of Indonesia
The initial version of Waktu Batu. Rumah yang Terbakar (2022) was commissioned by Festival Indonesia Bertutur 2022, curated by Melati Suryodarmo, held by Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of Republic of Indonesia