MAPPING WAYANG TRADITIONAL THEATRE AS A FORM OF LOCAL WISDOM OF SURAKARTA INDONESIA
Journal Title: Asian Journal Social Sciences & Humanities - Year 2013, Vol 2, Issue 2
Abstract
This article is aimed at describing how to map wayang (puppet) traditional theatre found ini Surakarta and its vicinity. The mapping of the wayang performance becomes significant in understanding the improvements of wayang in Surakarta, as one of the form of Javanese local wisdom. The results of the research show that from the six kinds of material used to make wayang only four kinds of material are commonly used in Surakarta. They are kulit (leather), kain (cloth), suket (grass), and human beings as the wayang. Out of the four kinds of material there exist eight kinds of wayang theatre loved by the community of Surakarta: (1) from kulit: wayang purwa, wayang wahyu, wayang kancil, and wayang kampung sebelah; (2) from kain: wayang beber and wayang potehi; (3) from suket: wayang suket Slamet Gundono; and (4) human beings as the wayang is called wayangwong. Most wayang theatre take wayang purwa as their source of wayang creation as seen in wayang wahyu, wayang kancil, wayang kampung sebelah, wayang beber, wayang suket Slamet Gundono, and wayang wong. Only wayang potehi is notincluded in the classification above because this kind of wayang theatre is Tiongkok (China) in origin, so that it has been influenced by Chinese culture
Authors and Affiliations
Nugraheni Eko Wardani, Endang Widiyastuti
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