On 18 December 2021, student activity units, Tater PeBel in collaboration with HMPS EDSA and Tater Roeang 28, performed a drama entitled “Cipta Rasa”. It’s about students complaining about college life. “Cipta Rasa” is where someone can tell all of their thoughts freely, without some border, some fear, some clumsiness from the deepest part of the heart,” Isfa, head of production.
They had problems about the show. Teater PeBel is practicing with many obstacles. Three month is a little time for some casts to do practice, and they are doing practice in a pandemic situation and it’s made them deal with “Jam Malam” at college. Another problem is their lack of cast. It’s also the reason why they do collaboration. “Not just that, we do collaboration because we want to share for all our friends, about how it feels doing drama on stage,”Adit, director. With all of the problems, they can greatly present a show with over 100 audience members even though they limit it to just 70 people.
Teater PeBel didn’t expect how big the interest of people in drama would be. Audience might have been longing to see the show in an offline situation. Adit as director, didn’t expect that. He told me about the H-1 reservation; it’s reserved for more than 100. As an actress, Nirwana had difficulty doing “Cipta Rasa” drama. She needs to keep the mood because they can’t match the mood of all the cast. And also the cast isn’t coming from the same class, 17, 18, 19, and 20. With different activities they do the practice together. And in practice, the storyline can change to suit casts or because they are not so related. It’s the function of practice.
The interesting part of “Cipta Rasa” is they make a restaurant known as “burjo” for their setting It is because “burJo” is the fundamental place for students. Everyday students gather at “burjo” to eat or just hang out. At “burjo” anything can happen, maybe a fight suddenly happens or maybe some little thought appears.
We have another point of view as well from the lead of Teater PeBel, Bagas. He told us that it is very difficult to make sure anything goes well in three months of preparation. He gets leaked to observe his character as Pak Burjo and is forced to perform maximally. He hopes that the next project, there will be regeneration from Teater Peel itself and make the biggest project at the next time.
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