墓地劇團 ｜Teater Kubur（雅加達 Jakarta）

「墓地劇團」是1990s後蘇哈托時代的先鋒劇團。與其他當代劇團不一樣，「墓地劇團」主要來自底層的甘榜。「墓地劇團」於1983年由Dindon W.S.創立。由於Dindon W.S.住在雅加達東面的公墓附近，因而劇團取名為「墓地劇團」。當時的成員都是住在當地的高中學生、建築工人、汽車維修工人、汽車噴漆工人等等。當時的排演亦主要在公墓進行。

當地甘榜（按：馬來村落 Kampung）的居民經常觀看劇團在公墓的排演，劇團亦被接納成為社區的一部份。在數年的訓練後，「墓地劇團」雖然取得成功，但總監Dindon W.S.並不希望劇團與建制走得太近，因此劇團並沒有選擇在大型場地演出，反而是在甘榜、青年中心、大學校園巡迴演出。他們並沒有採用先鋒劇作家的劇本，反而是透過實驗性的方法，演員們運用即場獲得的材料，如一些繩網或是大鐵鼓等等，作即興表演。演員們運用他們日常生活熟悉的語言、片語及影像演出，使得當地居民能夠明白及觀賞他們的表演。

Teater Kubur is an avant-garde theater throughout the 1990s to the post-Suharto Era. Its root in a lower kampung marked the group's difference compared with most modern theater groups. Established in 1983 by Dindon W.S., who lives (till now) in "Kampung Kober" of Eastern Jakarta, near a cemetery (kuburan), the group called itself Teater Kubur. During the days, members of the group work as high school students, construction workers, auto mechanics, auto painters... all of whom lived in Kampung Kober. Its main rehearsal space was on the actual cemetery grounds, too.

Local kampung residents often watched their rehearsals on the cemetery grounds. They were accepted as a part of the community. Teater Kubur has gained a great success and reward within few years' training, but the Director wants to distance himself from the any institutions. Thus they choose not to perform at big venues but tour to kampungs, youth centers, and university campuses. They do not use scripts by avant-garde writer. Rather they use exploratory method-improvisations by the actors with materials from their immediate environments, such as nets and large metal storage drums. Actor use languages, idioms, and images most familiar to them, such as the daily language for those on the margins. Dindon said that his group used the idioms of the kampung so that residents could understand and appreciate Kubur's experimental performances and idioms.