What is you plan for the upcoming weekend? If you do not have any, you could spend a couple of entertaining hours watching an excellent play by Jakarta Players Community Theatre at the Clubhouse of Pavilion Apartment in Jakarta, then walk away knowing that you have just helped educate Indonesian children in remote areas of the country. That is right, the community theater group is offering a great session to see an award-winning full-length play from New York called “Circle Mirror Transformation”. For your quick information, it will be first time in Indonesia. That sounds great right, but what it is all about? It is a theatre play that sets in an artsy small town, the play features four strangers who all sign up for an “Adult Creative Drama” class. There are a recently divorced carpenter, a high school junior, a former actress, and the teacher’s husband. Unfolding like a charmingly funny indie film, the group plays the teacher’s imaginative and sometimes awkward theatre games. But as their relationships develop over the course of the summer, the seemingly silly games generate some real-life drama.
The New York production of the play was written by Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright Annie Baker and was so successful that it landed on the top 10 lists of The New York Times and The New Yorker for 2010. Proceeds from this Jakarta Players production will go to Taman Bacaan Pelangi, a children’s charity providing free libraries for children in rural areas of Eastern Indonesia. For those of you who are willing to see “Circle Mirror Transformation” byJakarta Players Community Theatre, the play will be held at the Clubhouse of Pavilion Apartment, right next to Citywalk. You can choose from five show dates and buy your tickets via Ticket Base. To qualify for the student discount price, students will be required to show their student ID at the door.
The Jakarta Players is a non-profit, multinational community theatre group that provides English language entertainment for Jakarta’s theatre-loving community. They donate all profits from their shows to charities that benefit Indonesian families in need. So if you are in Jakarta and looking for a great creative outlet, feel free to contact them and they would be happy to welcome you into their community. They hope to see you soon as either an audience member, volunteer or performer at one of our upcoming productions.