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Hugh Holt, Contributor, Jakarta | Thu, 11/11/2010 9:57 AM | Entertainment
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About love, life and more: Onrop!, directed by Joko Anwar, will be playing at Teater Jakarta from this Saturday until Nov. 21.: www.onrapmusikal.com
This Saturday marks the opening of a live show in Jakarta. Onrop! is a musical extravaganza by award-winning writer-director Joko Anwar. The show is an imagining of Jakarta in the year 2020. It is about love, loss, isolation. It speaks of a city where the issues of intolerance and violence are have deepened to a critical point. Onrop! is also a comedy.
The story is of two young loves, Bram and Sari, their lives torn apart when Bram is falsely accused of crimes against humanity. It is here the title of the show enters: He is taken to Onrop island. From here, he must escape and find his love.
But the show is about more than a simple love story. While on the island, Bram has time to contemplate the true meaning of what it is to love, to be human. He lives amongst other degenerates: outcasts of society who form a pastiche of morality. All downtrodden, they form the catalyst for a transformation in Bram. Upon his return to Jakarta, things must change.
It is a love story, but it is also a cautionary tale: “there is a deepening problem with intolerance in Indonesia, with religious violence and various other issues, but we are all here, we are not going away, so we may as well learn to live together,” says Joko Anwar. While he says the show is a traditional broadway-style musical, he hopes people will “leave the theater thinking… as well as singing”.
How can so many points gel to make a coherent piece? Instructively, the Mel Brooks musical, the producers is what Anwar states as his favorite musical. Also a comedy, it is an instructive tale of bad taste and greed. Whilst he stops short of suggesting it is a direct influence, he wouldn’t be unhappy if unconsciously, Brooks’ ascerbic wit had found voice in Onrop!
Stylistically, audiences can expect a traditional musical. Broadway orchestration, lavish sets, large, choreographed set pieces. These are the elements which built one of the two great art forms of the 20th century (the other being cinema), and should seek to cement this as an enjoyable romp… with a message.
Indonesia is no stranger to the musical genre: There have been more than a handful of local productions staged in the past year to generally positive receptions. There is something about the musical form that gets to people. Perhaps it’s the fact that people love live music. They love singing, they love dancing. They also love love. Combine these things, add an ornate set and mix and you get a musical.
In this instance, each element is just as important as the next: Choreography, for example, is by famous dancer Eko Supriyanto and will be extremely contemporary, mixing elements of various Latin dances.
Musically, it has a fully orchestrated score and songs will fill the auditorium in a rich, layered blanket of sound.
All the elements are in place for what should be a tremendous spectacle: the plot is cracking (guy with girl, guy gets banished, guy gets girl back), the music uproarious, the sets large, the dancing fun.
Anybody not having a good time come Saturday night must either have a toothache or have eaten something bad from a vendor outside the auditorium.
When the curtain rises this Saturday, audiences have the opportunity to see a show which is not only tugs at the heart strings and has the capacity to make them hum the main tunes from the time they leave the theater until they get home to bed, but one which is funny, instructive and enormous fun.
Jakarta, get ye to Onrop!
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2010/11/11/%E2%80%98onrop%E2%80%99-musical-extravaganza-starts-weekend.html
Indonesische 'musical' als aanklacht tegen de nieuwe restrictieve pornografiewet. Razend populair. Speciaal voor Max Stirner :hihi:
http://www.thejakartapost.com/files/images2/p22-d.img_assist_custom-250x372.jpg
About love, life and more: Onrop!, directed by Joko Anwar, will be playing at Teater Jakarta from this Saturday until Nov. 21.: www.onrapmusikal.com
This Saturday marks the opening of a live show in Jakarta. Onrop! is a musical extravaganza by award-winning writer-director Joko Anwar. The show is an imagining of Jakarta in the year 2020. It is about love, loss, isolation. It speaks of a city where the issues of intolerance and violence are have deepened to a critical point. Onrop! is also a comedy.
The story is of two young loves, Bram and Sari, their lives torn apart when Bram is falsely accused of crimes against humanity. It is here the title of the show enters: He is taken to Onrop island. From here, he must escape and find his love.
But the show is about more than a simple love story. While on the island, Bram has time to contemplate the true meaning of what it is to love, to be human. He lives amongst other degenerates: outcasts of society who form a pastiche of morality. All downtrodden, they form the catalyst for a transformation in Bram. Upon his return to Jakarta, things must change.
It is a love story, but it is also a cautionary tale: “there is a deepening problem with intolerance in Indonesia, with religious violence and various other issues, but we are all here, we are not going away, so we may as well learn to live together,” says Joko Anwar. While he says the show is a traditional broadway-style musical, he hopes people will “leave the theater thinking… as well as singing”.
How can so many points gel to make a coherent piece? Instructively, the Mel Brooks musical, the producers is what Anwar states as his favorite musical. Also a comedy, it is an instructive tale of bad taste and greed. Whilst he stops short of suggesting it is a direct influence, he wouldn’t be unhappy if unconsciously, Brooks’ ascerbic wit had found voice in Onrop!
Stylistically, audiences can expect a traditional musical. Broadway orchestration, lavish sets, large, choreographed set pieces. These are the elements which built one of the two great art forms of the 20th century (the other being cinema), and should seek to cement this as an enjoyable romp… with a message.
Indonesia is no stranger to the musical genre: There have been more than a handful of local productions staged in the past year to generally positive receptions. There is something about the musical form that gets to people. Perhaps it’s the fact that people love live music. They love singing, they love dancing. They also love love. Combine these things, add an ornate set and mix and you get a musical.
In this instance, each element is just as important as the next: Choreography, for example, is by famous dancer Eko Supriyanto and will be extremely contemporary, mixing elements of various Latin dances.
Musically, it has a fully orchestrated score and songs will fill the auditorium in a rich, layered blanket of sound.
All the elements are in place for what should be a tremendous spectacle: the plot is cracking (guy with girl, guy gets banished, guy gets girl back), the music uproarious, the sets large, the dancing fun.
Anybody not having a good time come Saturday night must either have a toothache or have eaten something bad from a vendor outside the auditorium.
When the curtain rises this Saturday, audiences have the opportunity to see a show which is not only tugs at the heart strings and has the capacity to make them hum the main tunes from the time they leave the theater until they get home to bed, but one which is funny, instructive and enormous fun.
Jakarta, get ye to Onrop!
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2010/11/11/%E2%80%98onrop%E2%80%99-musical-extravaganza-starts-weekend.html
Indonesische 'musical' als aanklacht tegen de nieuwe restrictieve pornografiewet. Razend populair. Speciaal voor Max Stirner :hihi: