Glad to Watched "Ketoprak"

Last night i attended my cousin's wedding party. There was a special thing i saw. When, the modern society prefer to represent the music show to amusing their guests. But, my cousin's family represented a traditional show, name "Ketoprak". When Italian have opera show, we, javanese, having the "Ketoprak" show.

The drama tells about the histories of Java land or sometimes artist will perform stories from other regions. In one-time performances duration can be reached for hours. The artist used the javanese costume and the back sound played by a "Gamelan" Group, such a traditional music orchestra. Like in opera, "Ketoprak" presenting the songs and sung by the actors
.

Last night the story was about the conflict of "Kerajaan Singosari" (Singosari Kingdom) and "Kerajaan Kediri" (Kediri Kingdom), the kingdoms who had triumphed in the land of java hundreds years ago. The scenes divided in several term. to make it more interesting the director give some action scenes. Besides that, there were some comedian involved to make cheers, and the javanese name it with "Dagelan", means comedy.

There were some interesting messages conveyed in each dialog, such as spiritual, social, and culture. When i was child, i watched for several times in Television channel or live as i did last night , at that time i didn't know what the meaning of the stories. But now, i realize that the stories inside is very important, especially for the young generation to know the histories  and the incredible culture of their land that have been bequeathed by their predecessors.

I'm so glad to see the art performance of javanese which is very rare now. Hopefully this traditional culture will be able to survive in the future modern days.