Balinese actors in Darwin Festival

Balinese actors in Darwin Festival

DENPASAR: Four Balinese actors and eight musicians will display their stage prowess in Time is A Hunter, which will be premiered on Aug. 24 and run through Aug. 28 in Ruins town hall, Darwin, Australia.

Time is A Hunter is an offspring of a collaborative creative process between Australian woman dramatist Sandra Thibideaux and her Balinese counterpart Anak Agung Sagung Mas Ruscitadewi.

The bilingual play explores the intertwined fates of four, richly portrayed characters against the backdrop of the tragic period that immediately followed the Bali Bombing.

Among the protagonists are Made, a simple Balinese housewife widowed by the bombing, who must deal with the challenges of raising her children all by herself, and David and Ayu, a couple in despair over the future of their marriage and their tourism business.

"The tragedy had, and still has, altered the life of many people. The play is a small puzzle made of fragmented, but interlaced, personal pains and victories experienced by the protagonists during the course of that disturbing period," Mas Ruscitadewi revealed.

The performance is part of the multicultural Darwin Festival, Aug. 11 through Aug. 28. --JP