Ibed S. Yuga and Kalanari Theatre Movement will perform a play based on Franz Kafka's short story, “A Report to an Academy”.
In the dimly lit confines of the theatre stage, we invite you to witness the metamorphosis of a civilization’s narrative through the performance by Ibed S. Yuga and Kalanari Theatre Movement – loosely based on the lens of Franz Kafka's work,
A Report to an Academy (1917).
Exploring themes of captivity and adaptation,
A Report to an Academy is arguably a piece that emanates from Kafka’s fascination with the boundaries of human and its animalistic side, exploring the absurdity and questions of the existence and the civils.
The re-imagining by Ibed S. Yuga and Kalanari Theatre Movement takes root in a dining table: food embodies the basic necessity where politics started; the stage where the actor tells the story; the space where it aired personal biographies of the protagonists – which came from two different ethnic groups. It also served as a space where audience can participate in the performance, mimicking as the academy members that represents the power in the society.
Bridging both functional and aesthetic purposes, it will also be performed in sign language – thus expressing matters related to customs: the act of perception-comprehension between the humanized-civilized, respect and dis-respect, themes that associated with Otherness, from discrimination to interethnic conflict.
Indonesian translation by Dewi Noviami
Ibed Surgana Yuga
is a director and playwright at Kalanari Theatre Movement, Yogyakarta, from 2012 until now. She was born in Pancaseming, Jembrana, Bali. In 2003, after working as a journalist for over a year, Ibed moved to Yogyakarta to complete his theater directing studies. In 2005 he founded the theater community Seni Teku and became the director and playwright of the community until 2011. In 2009, his theater work with the Seni Teku group entitled
Kintir (
Children Flow in the River) was awarded the Umar Kayam Award by the Jogja Theater Festival. In addition to Java and Bali, Ibed has staged his works, given workshops, and collaborated in several areas at home and abroad, such as Banjarbaru, Belu, Cobh, Cork, Dali, Donggala, Dorset, Dublin, Herefordshire, Jambi, Landak, Makassar, Riau, Selangor, Shenzhen, Singapore, Stroud, Tokyo, Wiltshire, and others. Ibed also works as an editor at Kalabuku.
Kalanari Theatre Movement
is a culture movement institution through theatre. Kalanari using theatre as the entrance (and the exit) to study, interpret, explore, and represent the culture of a society. Theatre is neither for performances creation only, nor for artistic works only; it has noble vision and mission to develop the society culture by emphasize the humanity values. Established on March 8th, 2012, in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Kalanari’s internal objective (to the theatre) is to reaffirm the bond of performance and society; and the external objective (to the society) is to inspire the people to develop their culture.
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