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The Komedie Stamboel: Popular Theater in Colonial Indonesia, 1891-1903 (review)

The Komedie Stamboel: Popular Theater in Colonial Indonesia, 1891-1903 (review) reviews Book Reviews THE KOMEDIE STAMBOEL: POPULAR THEATER IN COLONIAL INDONESIA, 1891–1903. By Matthew Isaac Cohen. Athens, OH: Ohio Uni- versity Press. 2006. 473 pp. 36 black and white illus. 4 black and white maps. Appendix of Plays and Tableaux, Notes, Glossary, Selected Bibliography, and Index. Paper $30.00. The Komedie Stamboel: Popular Theater in Colonial Indonesia, 1891–1903 by Mat- thew Isaac Cohen may cover only a few years in Indonesia’s theatre history, but those dozen years represent a crucial period that helped lay the foundation for a modern Indonesian nation that continues to be refl ected today in con- temporary Indonesian theatre and fi lm. Cohen details his subject exhaustively and lovingly, giving the reader a vibrant, rich, and absorbing portrait of the founding, development, and infl uence of the Komedie Stamboel, a Malay- language musical theatre troupe founded in 1891 in the booming colonial harbor city of Surabaya on Java’s east coast. Cohen, currently a senior lecturer in the Department of Drama and Theatre, Royal Holloway, University of Lon- don, has spent decades researching Indonesian performance and is an accom- plished Cirebonese wayang kulit dalang (West Javanese rod puppeteer). Using his multilingual skills, he has explored and included http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Asian Theatre Journal University of Hawai'I Press

The Komedie Stamboel: Popular Theater in Colonial Indonesia, 1891-1903 (review)

Gillitt, Cobina.
Asian Theatre Journal , Volume 25 (1) – Mar 4, 2008
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reviews Book Reviews THE KOMEDIE STAMBOEL: POPULAR THEATER IN COLONIAL INDONESIA, 1891–1903. By Matthew Isaac Cohen. Athens, OH: Ohio Uni- versity Press. 2006. 473 pp. 36 black and white illus. 4 black and white maps. Appendix of Plays and Tableaux, Notes, Glossary, Selected Bibliography, and Index. Paper $30.00. The Komedie Stamboel: Popular Theater in Colonial Indonesia, 1891–1903 by Mat- thew Isaac Cohen may cover only a few years in Indonesia’s theatre history, but those dozen years represent a crucial period that helped lay the foundation for a modern Indonesian nation that continues to be refl ected today in con- temporary Indonesian theatre and fi lm. Cohen details his subject exhaustively and lovingly, giving the reader a vibrant, rich, and absorbing portrait of the founding, development, and infl uence of the Komedie Stamboel, a Malay- language musical theatre troupe founded in 1891 in the booming colonial harbor city of Surabaya on Java’s east coast. Cohen, currently a senior lecturer in the Department of Drama and Theatre, Royal Holloway, University of Lon- don, has spent decades researching Indonesian performance and is an accom- plished Cirebonese wayang kulit dalang (West Javanese rod puppeteer). Using his multilingual skills, he has explored and included

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