PRAKTIK TEATER POSTDRAMATIK DI INDONESIA

Abstract

An article entitled “Practice of Postdramatic Theater in Indonesia” is an examination of postdramatic theater practices in Indonesia in the 1990s to 2000s in Jakarta, Bandung, Yogyakarta, and even West Sumatra. This practice spawned generations that continue to grow and develop through aesthetics based on performance texts instead of conventional drama texts we are more familiar with. Each theater community, postdramatic or otherwise, typically carries out an in-depth exploration and elaboration of all possible bodies of texts and artistic works used as the main materials for performances. This study uses the qualitative method and two sets of theory: historical theory and postdramatic theater theory. Composition process, structure, and texture of postdramatic theater developed by Hans-Thies Lehmann are centered on the elements of text, space, time, body, and media depicted in the works of SAE Theatre, Grave Theater, Black-and-White Payung Theatre, Garage Theatre, and Black-White Art Community.