Activities

PBI Play Performances

Sat, 19 May 2012

Attended by hundreds of audiences for two consecutives nights, PBI students' play performances this semester have ben a great success. The plays, namely, 1. Hey Mary, 2. A Fortiori (in Latin, meaning 'the stronger reason'), 3. Cliche and 4. Layung, were performed on Friday and Saturday, 18 and 19 May 2012 at the USD campus 'aula' (hall) in Mrican, Sleman, Yogyakarta. 

On the first night, Hey Mary and A Fortiori were performed and on the second one, Cliche and Layung were put into action. All PBI students taking the subject Play Performance, together with their lecturers -- Pak Krisna, Pak Miko and Pak Prast, and some PBI alumni, had worked hard to prepare themselves to express themselves in English and entertain their excited audiences.

 

A scene in Layung: Daughter-mother togetherness 

 

Here are the synopses of the four plays (thanks to Pak Krisna).

1. Hey, Mary! Mary Gray, a twenty-four year old girl living in London, has to deal with the truth that she is only a poor girl with a broken family. When she happens to find that the condition of her family is getting worse, she decides to leave her family to a city called Essex. Arriving in a railway station called St. James; Mary meets with a beautiful girl named Cathy Anderson, who also wants to go to Essex since she has got accepted to be an art teacher in a school in Essex. Cathy Anderson is the only daughter of Johnson Anderson, one of rich businessmen in London. Having met Cathy makes Mary admire the girl until she wonders if she can exchange her fate with Cathy. 

2. A Fortiori In Surabaya 1898, there was a native Javanese girl, named Kedasih. She has been sold by her own father, Sastrojoyo, to a wealthy Dutchman, Pieter Mattijh. At the first time, Kedasih wasn't happy with her new life as Nyai. Pieter Mattijh taught her to be a duchess; learning about business and all things about to be a duchess. As time goes by, Kedasih was accustomed to be a Nyai Kedasih of Pieter Mattijh.  She had learned everything about western culture and it made her a modern Javanese woman. 

3. Cliche In New York City in 1967, there lived a couple; they were Valerie Michaels and Archibald von Trapp. They had been a couple since high school. However, Archibald had to go to Birmingham, Alabama to handle his family's textile factory. He had to be apart with Valerie. Before they were apart, Archibald asked Valerie to be his fiancé. Valerie said yes. However, still they're apart. Valerie was a student in Julliard Arts Institute and she was majoring drama. She met Jodie Dwayne and Emma Thompson. They got along well and became close friends.  

4. Layung Gendhis, a former well-known dancer, has been married to a rich nobleman Parikesit with a daughter, named Sekar Kinanthi. Gendhis and Parikesit's light family lives very happily without lacking of anything in a big house in Jakarta, a capital town where some cultures meet and interact. The joy of the family is being multiplied with the success of the family's only child Sekar Kinanthi in being chosen to be the leading dancer in an upcoming great dance performance. This blessing brings back Parikesit to the moment when he met his wife for the first time; the same blessing brings a bittersweet memory back to Gendhis' lap while she falls on her knees.

 

Crew and cast of Cliche

 

Ticket counter services: (left-right) Tiata, Diana and Weppy

 

Getting ready for performances

 

Lighting plus sound effects: Some PBI-ers 'behind the scene' 

 

Undoubtedly, the latest four play performances reflect excellent team work of PBI students, alumni and lecturers. Let's keep up this heartening synergy! (bb) 

 

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