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PLAYS IN TRANSLATION

Utuy Tatang Sontani
"Awal and Mira", in Harry Aveling, Man and Society in the Works of the Indonesian Playwright Utuy Tatang Sontani     (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Southeast Asian Studies Program, 1979).

----- "The Flower of the Restaurant",Indonesia 30 (Oct. 1980): 17-41.
----- "Si Kabayan", in Three SEAsian Plays,supplement to Tenggara 4 (1969): 1-24.


Iwan Simatupang
Square Moon (Jakarta: Yayasan Lontar, 1997) (contains):
"Evening in the Park" (1957)
"Square Moon" (1957)
"No Place, No Name" (1967)
"Freedom and Cacti" (1969)


Arifin C. Noer
The Bottomless Well (Jakarta: Yayasan Lontar, 1992) (1962)

----- Moths (Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Pustaka and Bahasa (1974) (1970)


W.S. Rendra
The Mastodon and the Condors(Calcutta: P. Lal. 1981) (1973)

----- The Struggle of the Naga Tribe (Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 1979)(1975)


Ikranagara
"The Rites of the Mask--Mask I", Tenggara 23 (1989): 151-79.


Putu Wijaya
Geez! In Ellen Rafferty, ed., Putu Wijaya in Performance: A Script and Study of Indonesian Theatre      (Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Center for Southeast Asian Studies, 1989): 59-128. (1980)

----- "Boss", Australasian Drama Studies 25 (Oct 1994): 92-103.
----- "1981", RIMA 29.1-2 (Winter/Summer 1995): 91-95.


N. Riantiarno
Time Bomb (Jakarta: Lontar, 1993)

----- Cockroach Opera (Jakarta: Lontar, 1993)


Ratna Sarumpaet
Marsinah: Song from the Underworld(1998)

----- Marsinah Accuses, in Silenced Voices (Manoa 12.1 [2000]): 155-66.


Worker's Theatre
"Bila Saatnya Tiba" (When the Time is Right), in Rebecca Conroy, The Subjugated Subversive in the Aesthetic Space: a case study of Teater Buruh Indoensia: Appendix 1a, 1-16.


Seno Gumira Ajidarma
"Why Did You Abduct Our Son?" in Seno Gumira Ajidarma, Jakarta at a Certain Point in Time,
Michael H. Bodden, ed. and trans. (Victoria, BC: University of Victoria Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives, 2002): 60-92.


CRITICAL WORKS

Precursors
Cohen, Matthew Isaac "On the Origins of the Komdie Stamboel: Popular Culture, Colonial Society, and the Parsi Theatre Movement", Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (BTLV) 157.2 (2001): 313-358.


Sanusi Pane*
Bodden, Michael "Utopia and the Shadow of Nationalism: The Plays of Sanusi Pane 1928-1940", BTLV 153.3 (1997): 332-355.


Utuy Tatang Sontani
Aveling, Harry "An Analysis of Utuy Tatang Sontani's `Suling'", BTLV 125 (1969) 3: 328-343.
Man And Society in the Works of The Indonesian Playwright Utuy Tatang Sontani (Honolulu: U of Hawaii Center of Southeast Asian Studies, 1979)


Teguh Karya
Brown, Ian "Two Visionaries of Indonesian Theatre", Inside Indonesia 72 (Oct.-Dec. 2002): 31-32.

Riantiarno, N., ed., Teguh Karya & Teater Populer 1968-1993 (Jakarta: Sinar Harapan, 1993)


Studiklub Teater Bandung
Brown, Ian "Two Visionaries of Indonesian Theatre", Inside Indonesia 72 (Oct.-Dec. 2002): 31-32.

Sugiyanti S.A., Mohamad Sunjaya, and Suyatna Anirun, eds., Teater untuk Dilakoni (Bandung: Studiklub Teater Bandung, 1993)


Rendra
Anderson, Benedict Review of Struggle of the Naga Tribe, Journal of Asian Studies XL, No. 2 (Feb. 1981): 428-430.
Aveling, Harry "Introduction," in The Mastodon and the Condors (Calcutta: Writers' Workshop, 1981): v-xxvii.

Haryono, Edi, ed., Rendra dan Teater Modern Indonesia (Yogyakarta: Kepel Press, 2000)

Hatley, Barbara "Not By Royal Command: People's Theatre in Yogyakarta and Solo", Inside Indonesia 13 (December 1987): 26-29.

Hill, David "Rendra Downunder: Interview and Report", Inside Indonesia 17 (December 1988): 13-17.

Lane, Max "Translator's Preface," and "Translator's Introduction," in The Struggle of the Naga Tribe (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1979): xi-xli.

Morgan, Anne-Marie "Catching up with Rendra". Inside Indonesia 38 (March 1994): 30-32.

Rendra      Mempertimbangkan Tradisi (Jakarta: Gramedia, 1983)

Teeuw, A., "Rendra, `The Struggle of the Naga Tribe'", RIMA 13.2 (Dec. 1979): 170-171.

Tejawati, Sri S. "Rendra at Home", Inside Indonesia 18 (April 1989): 32.

Verburgt, Ron "I Am Because You Are; You Are Because I Am; An Interview with Rendra", Australasian Drama Studies 25 (Oct. 1994): 6-16.


Putu Wijaya
Rafferty, Ellen "The Tontonan Theatre of Putu Wijaya", in Ellen Rafferty, ed., Putu Wijaya In Performance (Madison: University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Southeast Asian Studies, 1989): 9-30.

Zarilli, Philip "Structure and Subjunctivity: Putu Wijaya's Theatre of Surprise", TDR 31.3 (Fall 87): 126-159. Also in Putu Wijaya in Performance


Riantiarno
Bodden, Michael "Teater Koma's Suksesi and Indonesia's New Order," Asian Theatre Journal 14.2 (Fall 1997): 259-280.

-----"Brecht in Asia: New Agendas, National Traditions, and Critical Consciousness", in Siegfried Mews, ed., A Bertolt Brecht Reference Companion(Westport, Conn.:Greenwood, 1997): 379-398.

Janarto, Herry Gendut Teater Koma:Potret Tragedi & Komedi Manusia [Indonesia] (Jakarta: PT Grasindo, 1997)

Zurbuchen, Mary "The "Cockroach Opera": Image of Culture and National Development in Indonesia", Tenggara 23 (1989): 123-150.


Ratna Sarumpaet
Bodden, Michael "Workers' Theatre and Theatre About Workers in 1990s Indonesia," RIMA 31.1 (June 1997): 51-61.

Hatley, Barbara "Ratna Accused and Defiant", Inside Indonesia 55 (July-Sept 1998): 7-9.

Janson, Julie "Theatre Blossoms", Inside Indonesia 71 (July-September 2002): 31.


Seno Gumira Ajidarma
Bodden, Michael "Introduction: Jakarta at a Certain Point in Time" in Seno Gumira Ajidarma, Jakarta at a Certain Point in Time, Michael H. Bodden, ed. and trans. (Victoria, BC: University of Victoria Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives, 2002): 1-17.


Central Java
Bodden, Michael "Arena Theatre and the Brechtian Tradition: Indonesian Grassroots Theatre", Brecht Yearbook 20 (1995): 153-173.

von der Borch, Rosslyn Art and Activism: Some Examples From Contemporary Central Java (Adelaide: Flinders University Asian Studies [Monograph No.4], 1988): esp. pp. 39-64.

van Erven, Eugène "Beyond the Shadows of Wayang: Liberation Theatre in Indonesia", New Theatre Quarterly 17 (Feb 1989):36-51. (Slightly revised in his book, The Playful Revolution.)

Feinstein, Alan "Modern Javanese Theatre and the Politics of Culture", BTLV 151.4 (1995): 617-639.

Hatley, Barbara "Not By Royal Command: People's Theatre in Yogyakarta and Solo", Inside Indonesia 13 (December 1987): 26-29.

-----"Theatre as Cultural Resistance in Contemporary Indonesia", in Arief Budiman, ed., State and Civil Society in Indonesia (Clayton, Victoria: Monash University Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, 1990): 321-348.

-----"Constructions of `Tradition' in New Order Indonesian Theatre", in Virginia Matheson Hooker, ed., Culture and Society in New Order Indonesia(Kuala Lumpur: Oxford U Press, 1993): 48-69.

-----"Contemporary Indonesian Theatre in the Regions: Stage Idiom and Social Referentiality", Theatre Research International, 19.1 (1993 or 4?): 17-28.

----- "Lightning", Inside Indonesia 58 (April-June 1999):27-28.

----- "Cultural Expression and Social Transformation in Indonesia", in Arief Budiman, Barbara hatley, and Damien Kingsbury, eds., Reformasi: Crisis and Change in Indonesia (Clayton: Monash Asia Institute, 1999): 267-285.

Janson, Julie "Theatre Blossoms", Inside Indonesia 71 (July- September 2002): 31.

Juliastuti, Nuraini "Red Light Theater", Latitudes 11 (Dec. 2001): 58-61.

Samson, Lynne "The Banning of Pak Kanjeng". Inside Indonesia 40 (Sept. 1994): 28-30.

Weix G.G. "Gapit Theatre: New Javanese Plays on Tradition", Indonesia 60: 17-36.


General and Other
Auwy, Tommy F., ed, Teater Indonesia: Konsep, Sejarah, Problema Jakarta: Dewan Kesenian Jakarta, 1999).

Bain, Lauren "Confused?: Some Directions in post-New Order Theatre", Inside Indonesia 64 (Oct.-Dec. 2000): 8.

----- "Teater Kita, where ritual meets cartoon", The Jakarta Post 5 June 2001.

----- "Theatre is Dead! Long Live Theatre!", Jakarta 9 (July 2001): 38-43.


Bodden, Michael "How to Make Foreign Plays Speak to Indonesian Audiences: Universalism and Postcolonial Identity in Indonesian Modern Art Theatre" forthcoming in Herni Chambert Loir, ed.,

----- "Satuan-Satuan Kecil and Uncomfortable Improvisations in the Late Night of the New Order: Democratization, Postmodernism, and Postcoloniality" forthcoming in Keith Foulcher and Tony Day, eds., Clearing a Space: Postcolonial Readings of Modern Indonesian Literature (Leiden: KITLV Pres, 2002): 293-324.

----- "Notes on the Culture of the Reformasi Era", in Drew Duncan and Timothy Lindsey, eds., Indonesia after Soeharto: Reformasi and Reaction (Victoria, BC: University of Victoria Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives, 1999): 137-148.

----- "Workers' Theatre and Theatre About Workers in 1990s Indonesia," RIMA,/i> 31.1 (June 1997): 37-78.

Clark, Marshall "Cleansing the Earth: How the Arts Community Took Part" [In the Protest Movement Against Suharto in early 1998], Inside Indonesia 56 (Oct.-Dec. 1998): 13-14.

Conroy, Rebecca The Subjugated Subversive in the Aesthetic Space: a case study of Teater Buruh Indonesia (BA Honours Thesis, Department of Drama, University of Newcastle, Australia, November 1997).

Dahana, Radhar Panca Ideologi Politik dan Teater Modern Indonesia (Magelang: Indonesiatera, 2001).

----- Homo Teatricus (Magelang: Indonesiatera, 2001.


Gillitt, Cobina "Tradisi Baru: A "New Tradtion" of Indonesian Theatre", Asian Theatre Journal 12.1 (Spring 95): 164-174.

----- "Challenging Conventions and Crosing Boundaries: A New Tradition of Indonesian Theatre From 1968-1978 (Putu Wijaya, Rendra, Arifin C. Noer) New York University, PhD. dissertation, 2001.

Hatley, Barbara "Theatre and the Politics of National/Regional Identity: Some Sumatran Examples", RIMA 25.2 (Summer 1991): 1-18.

----- "Stage Texts and Life Texts: Women in Contemporary Indonesian Theatre", Australasian Drama Journal 25 (Oct 1994): 17-39 (An expanded version appears in the BTLV issue on performance in 1995).


Ikranagara, "The Making of Indonesian Theatre: From Globalization to Pluralistic Interaction," Tenggara 38 (1996): 1-21.

Jit, Krishen "A Survey of Modern Southeast Asian Drama", Tenggara 23 (1989): 1-25.

Malaon, Tuti Indra; Afrizal Malna and Bambang Dwi, eds., Menengok Tradisi: Sebuah Alternatif Bagi teater Modern (Jakarta: Dewan Kesenian Jakarta, 1986).

Mohamad, Goenawan "Modern Drama" (New York: Festival of Indonesia Foundation "Aspects of Indonesian Culture" Series, 1991).

----- "Sebuah Pembelaan untuk Teater Indonesia Mutakhir" in Goenawan Mohamad, Seks, Sastra, Kita (Jakarta: Sinar Harapan, Seri Esni No. 1, 1980); 91-148.

Purwaraharja, Lephen, ed., Ideologi Teater Modern Kita (Yogyakarta: Gondho Suli, 2000).

Sihombing, Wahyu; Slamet Sukirnanto, Ikranegara, eds., Pertemuan Teater 80 (Jakarta: Dewan Kesenian Jakarta, 1980) (A series of statements of creative concepts by the major figures of the national art theatre of the 1970s).

Sumardjo, Jakob Perkembangan Teater Modern dan Sastra Drama Indonesia (Bandung: PT Citra Aditya Bakti, 1992)

Winet, Evan "Facing Indonesia: Character, actor and nation in Jakarta's Modern Theatre", Stanford University, PhD. dissertation, 2001.

Morgan, Anne-Marie "Three Approaches to Modern Theatre in Jakarta in the 1990s: Rendra, Putu Wijaya, and Ratna Sarumpaet", AustralasianDrama Studies, No. 27 (October 1995): 70-85.

Thomas, Karen Sri Kartomi "Tradition and Modern Indonesian Theatre (Rendra, Riantiarno, Kampungan, Gedongan)" University of California, Berkeley PhD. Dissertation, 1994.