New Indonesian Plays

New Indonesian Plays

I must admit that I know very little about Indonesian culture and history, let alone drama. This is probably because there are very few published anthologies of Indonesian drama in English translation and fewer still performed in the UK.

In 2019 the Indonesia Dramatic Reading Festival (IDRF) was invited to showcase some plays as part of the London Book Fair. This anthology has been published to promote Indonesian drama to international readers and cultivate a new audience for these plays, which are little known to UK audiences. There are 7 plays, all quite concise, and the collection tackles a wide array of issues, all hard-hitting but very varied in content ‘from religious teens to sex workers, to the survivors of political turbulence…providing insight into the changing nature of Indonesian society today.’