Tuesday, September 18, 2007

THEATRE CONCEPT


Theatre Concept by Hermana HMT

Basically, theater is result of a process which develops from time to time and appropriates to the development of society’s thought and spiritual mentality in its own environment. This process itself is result of acculturation draw from various complex components. A work of theater is created because it has deeper dimension and essence inside. Human imagination and creativity make art valuable and can be appreciated or enjoyed by society at large.
Our imagination and creativity will open the door onto improvement, new product and service, new world market, new communication way, and new way to preserve our environment and natural resources. It will also present more beautiful and rhythmical things.
The term of space on theater is the space where human read the sign of life in the past, present, or future and has function as reflection of life. Theater is not only as media of thought and feeling expression but also like its own life or miniature of life that forms on human’s will and work on the stage and full of symbol and meaning.
Of course, we want that the realization of life in theater does not just form and then finish at that time. It must spring some wishes that can give spirit to human life at least as reflection, intelligence, and artistic beauty from the offered ideas.
In every making of theater, we rarely take the idea of Stanislavsky’s realism performance style, but more refer to the spirit of Sundanese traditional theater (longser) and Effect Brecht’s theater. The spirit is basis of standing then it is developed with had style and experience to be ‘new idea’ and ‘new form’. We call it Teater Sabrehna.
Sabrehna is taken from Sundanese and means whatever there is or as it is. In our theater, this concept is formed by the mix of various concepts then reprocessed with our own discoveries from experiences we got since processing time and makes a form of theater that can’t be categorized as the follower of certain theory (Stanislavinsky, Brecht, or Artaud). Sabrehna means whatever we can see, whatever we can think, whatever we can feel, and whatever we can move on the full conscious corridor without forgetting the ethic and aesthetic power as responsibility to public. Nevertheless, it does not mean that we underestimate the existing theories. We just feel afraid to be trapped on the struggle of theories and consider that we can’t follow their theories fully. We can’t be a whole realist, Artaud, or Brecht. The reason we make the spirit of Brecht as the basic is because this concept has the uniqueness like the spirit of Longser which is familiar with our life. We have slogan ‘playing on play but serious’ or ‘playing on seriousness, serious on play’ means there is a seriousness or capability when the actor plays and awareness in communicating to public. We hope this concept can be a local discourse which is being of the world and global.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Keep up the good work.

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