Pantomime show this week

Pantomime show this week

JAKARTA (JP): Sena Didi Meme, Indonesia's only professional
pantomime group, will perform Gangster and Your Friends at the
Jakarta Art Gallery from July 21 through 23.

The theater's director, Sena A. Utoyo, promised yesterday that
the group will prove that pantomime is not what Indonesian
audiences generally imagine: white-masked actors doing boring
mute movements on stage.

"We want to show the public that good pantomime is a lot more
than that," Seno, who is also a teacher at the Jakarta Arts
Institute, said.

From the 18 shows he has performed in various cities
throughout Indonesia, he said, he concludes that Indonesian
theater goers generally consider pantomime as a "boring classical
work of art which is hard to comprehend."

In the Gangster and Your Friends, there will be a dance by
ballerina Linda Karim and dialog, Seno said. (pan)