PSPB 2010 behind the scene

PSPB (Pentas Seni & Pentas Budaya)

An annual event as part of Festival Budaya FIB UI (Cultural Festival of Faculty of Humanities), commonly abbreviated as FesBud. It was always held in December to celebrate FIB's Dies Natalis (some kind of birthday, I guess) and consisted of some sub-events : PSPB & Pawai (both were handled by 2nd year students), Petang Kreatif (theatrical performance by 1st year students), and some other else (didn't know the exact names).

And for PSPB 2010, German 2009 batch proudly presented...

The Sound Of Music, Betawi version

why Betawi? not that we loved the culture so damn much or what, that's just the main requirement of the contest, that's all. to make it even more complicated, they only gave 10 mins for each performance. like, geez? we needed to make our own storyline and deleted sooooo many scenes.

so, our own creation of this classic timeless piece told about a family that ran away from Austria to Batavia (jauh abis emang) to avoid Hitler's authority. the father (Capt von Trapp) needed a nanny, so he hired one (Mariem, yes it's not Maria, I didn't misspell it) from an agen penyalur baby sitter.  all the 7 children were raised with strict military rules, but then the nanny brought them a new cheerful and lively ambience. soon the father fell for herand propose her. then they live happily with lots of karedok and semur jengkol, tadaahhh! (no, the last one wasn't in the story, don't eat that lie).

enough typing, here's some snaps from the showcase preparation ...

masih wanita

step 1 : thick shading

step 2 : thick eyebrow + moustache

et voilá!

the girl on the right was Maria (or Mariem, in this play) ...

this one? yea, me.

Gretl, child #7

Louisa, child #3 (eh apa Brigitta ya namanya? lupa)

Kurt, child #4

the mean babysitter. rawrrrr

Gretl with Marta, child #6

photos from the performance is coming up soon. don't have any, need to wait for the others to upload them. but overall, the whole short-show was beyond expectations. I don't really think about the winner title, but one thing I got from the long-yet-tiring rehearsals : unity in the name of DE 09