Vera's E-drama

Vera Shelviana

THREE MASKENTHEERS

PLAYERS

MAS POPO, 26, curly hair, black eyes, like wearing white T-shirt

MAS LANA, 26, a good looking and handsome boy

MAS DIPO, 26, tall, thin, love to sing with his ‘nightmare voice’

TINI, 29, MAS POPO’s lovely sister

TONO, 47, the manager of ‘SAKANANE RESTO’

THE DRIVER, around 20, a big with a lot of tattoo on his body

PASSENGER 1, no particular age, but young would be nice

PASSENGER 2, newly leave boy

PASSENGER 3, one who was vomit in DAMRI

FRODO, a kind of monkey

PARKING MAN, around 37, simply and hard worker

MAS LANA’S DADDY, 54, wise, well dressed

NOTE. MAS POPO, MAS LANA and MAS DIPO are best friends since they were born in this world. They are always together no matter what happen in the world. They are always being “the trouble maker” for anybody in anywhere and any situation. They sometimes do stupid things that make someone else angry. And now, they are being the student of “MASKULIN UNIVERSITY”. The combination of the stupid MAS POPO, the playboy MAS LANA and the nightmare voice MAS DIPO made them called “THREE MASKENTHEER”that always do the stupid things that can made them in trouble.

SCENE 1. Early morning on Friday 13, in a big green house this is completed with beautiful garden and swimming pool. A black car is parked in front of the house. Nothing special about this house but let’s see what happen inside.

TINI (screaming). Aarrgh!! It must be MAS POPO’s creation. (TINI go to MAS POPO’s room immediately calling MAS POPO many times). MAS POPO! MAS POPO! MAS POPO! (When TINI arrived in MAS POPO’s room, she found that MAS POPO was sleeping. She was pushing MAS POPO’s body until he fall down but he keep sleeping). Oh, God! You sleep like e dead. (TINI get more and angrier so she ran to take a bucket of water. She would splash the water on his face and Byuuur..)

MAS POPO (shocking). Oatz! What’s wrong with you?

TINI (in a bad tempered). Get out of my house!

MAS POPO. What’s the problem?

TINI. Are you mad? You gave my little baby a bottle of beer. He is very drunk now and it is hard for me to forgive you this time so get out of my house!

MAS POPO. Are you sure wanted to eliminate me from your house, my lovely siesta?

TINI. What?? Stupid question! Of course, I’m very sure.

SCENE 2. Finally MAS POPO got out of his sister’s house and went to campus. In a campus’s corner with a lot of shading and of course many couple are in love until they don’t know that ‘THE THREE MASKENTHEER’ have arrived there. MAS POPO met his two best friends there, MAS LANA and MAS DIPO.

THREE MASKENTHEER . Pal, I was thrown out of my house. (They get surprise and starring each other)

MAS LANA. Pal, I’m more convince that God create us to be together all the time during in our life. (They are hugging each other like in the movie in “TELETUBBIES”. The sweetest thing in this story)

MAS POPO (explaining). I was thrown out because I made my nephew got drunk. I gave him a bottle of beer when he was crying as if he wishes somebody come to give him something to cure his dry throat. And I’m, MAS POPO who be a little fairy for my nephew but my kindness made my sister angry and here I am.

MAS LANA. You are totally sick! I think you must repair your brain until it can work properly, hwahahaha…

MAS POPO (annoying). Don’t laugh at me like that! So what is your problem with your family?

MAS LANA. I made my Daddy in a high tempered. I sold his lovely chicken and I use that money to buy a play station’s cassette “The Adventure of Dani and Maya”. Ooh my dreamed cassette, finally I can get that but I was thrown out by my Daddy..hikz…hikz…

MAS POPO. Cup…Cup…Cup… (Trying to calm MAS LANA down)

MAS LANA (to MAS DIPO). How about you?

MAS DIPO. Because I was sang when I was taking a bath. (MAS POPO keeps silent as if he understands what MAS DIPO mean)

MAS LANA. What do you mean? I don’t understand!

MAS DIPO. Because of my voice FRODO was dying. It is ridiculous but that’s the truth.

MAS LANA. You mean FRODO your little sister’s monkey? Hwahahahaha…… How stupid we are!!

SCENE 3. After that unexpected experience, they want to prove to their family that they can live without their help. They are thinking to find a job in the following day. Let’s continue their stupid adventure.

MAS POPO (suggesting). Guys, lets find a job!

MAS DIPO. What can we do?

MAS POPO (giving his greatest idea). Aaahaaaa…. How about working in a restaurant?

MAS LANA (mocking). How smart are you? It is rarely happen in your life, right? Congratulation, my Pal! Hwahahahaha……

MAS POPO . Heh??? (Many question mark in MAS POPO’s brain, he still don’t know what they were laughing about)

MAS DIPO (in his spirit). OK! Let’s do it, guys! (THREE MASKENTHEER went to “Sakanane Resto”. They would like to apply for a job there. And luckily they were accepted on that restaurant as a ‘dishes washer’. They were work as good as they could. Firstly, it was running smoothly but in the middle of their work, MAS POPO splashed the dishes’s water to MAS LANA’s face. MAS LANA replied that action. And finally they got chaos in the back sink until the place was getting dirty and disgusting. Because of noisy, TONO the manager looked out what was happening. He decided to go to back sink and unfortunately Byuuuur…..a bucket of water was poured onto TONO’s body. THREE MASKENTHEER were staring each other)

MAS POPO (apologizing). Oh, God! I’m so sorry, Sir.

TONO (saying in a bad tempered). Aaargh!!! All of you are fired!

MAS LANA (trying to explain). But… (Unfortunately, TONO has left the room and them gone sadly…)

SCENE 4. Another best experience has passed. On Wednesday 15, they have arrived in”PASARAYA GRANDE”. It was the brightest day during this scene. Suddenly, priitt….priitt….priitt….A parking man was parking a car in the sun parking area and this situation became the good inspiration for MAS LANA. You want to know what kind of inspiration that MAS LANA gets? Let’s see!

MAS LANA (saying in the best action as a hero that has already saved the world). My Pal, I have a good job to do and it seems to be easy.

MAS POPO and MAS DIPO (asking at the same time). What?

MAS LANA. As a ‘parking man’! hwahahaha….is it good enough, right?

MAS DIPO (saying in a big smile). Let’s do it again, guys! (And after a while…)

MAS POPO (to MAS DIPO). It seems to be a good job. It is easy job right? Until a car was hitting a hydrant because of MAS LANA’s careless. He parked a car while he saw a beautiful and sexy lady walking through the parking area.

MAS LANA (shouting). Damn!! God!! Bitchy girl!! I’m sorry, Sir. I don’t mean it.

THE DRIVER (angrily). What have you done? God damn it! You stupid dumb old jerk!

MAS LANA (apologizing). I’m sorry, Sir.

THE DRIVER. What? You make my car broken and you just said ‘sorry’. How easy it is! (Fuss and hot debate were happened between MAS LANA and THE DRIVER. MAS POPO and MAS DIPO just are good spectators. After a couple of hour, they were reaching a deal, MAS LANA would change all of the financial loss that he has made. And THREE MASKENTHEER gone sadly….They kept walking and walking until a very bad voice break the loneliness)

MAS DIPO (asking in a bad voice). What will we do next? (MAS POPO and MAS LANA kept in silence, no one answered his question. MAS DIPO gets bored and desperate until he revealed an idea). Lets continue our life begin with being a ‘street singer’!

MAS LANA. Aahaaa…..Great!!

MAS POPO. Its show time, guys. (A guitar, a bottle aqua and MAS DIPO’s voice became their capital as a street singer beginner. Inside DAMRI, a good music was played in a good rhythm but when MAS DIPO begin to sing, Oatz…like a bomb that ever happened in Bali, everybody has shocked)

PASSENGER 1 (shouting). Huuuu……Huuuu…… (Everybody in that bus was shouting and mumbling. One passenger got dying until he already vomits because of MAS DIPO’s voice)

PASSENGER 2 (mocking). Hey!! Is that your bad voice or very bad voice? (All of the passengers were laughing). Get out of this bus, Man!!

ALL PASSENGERS (agreeing). Yes. Out! Out! Out! (Finally, they got down from that bus. It was happen again, again and again until they got very tired and sleep under the bridge)

SCENE 5. Monday 16, a lot of unexpected experience that THREE MASKENTHEER have passed. The cold whether was forced them to wake up early after the long night under the bridge. A wise decision has taken by them.

MAS POPO. I can not stand it anymore.

MAS LANA. Yes, me too.

MAS DIPO. So do I.

MAS LANA. Lets go back home!

MAS DIPO. Yeah… You are right. There was no comfort and save place except home.

MAS POPO. I will promise to my sister that I’ll never do those stupid things anymore.

MAS LANA. OK! Let’s move guys! (They went back to their home. They kept their promise and live normally and finally this is the end of the adventure of THREE MASKENTHEER...C U Later)

Student's Miniplay

Carrisa Andrelia

THE TWO-TIME STORY

PLAYERS

SHARI, 20, the trouble maker

RUFI, 20, Shari’s boy friend

VINNO, 20, friend of Rufi and TTian, has an affair with Shari

TIAN, 20, Rufi’s neighbor

DONY, 22, Shari’s’s nephew, friend of Vinno

THE MAID, 20, Shari’s maid

SCENE 1. At the beginning, a girl is alone on the stage. The stage is set a girl bedroom. The background is floral wallpaper. She holds her mobile phone, answering a call. She sits on the couch. Meanwhile VINNO stands in the right side of the exit room of the stage. He is calling SHARI.

VINNO. Hello.

SHARI (smiling). Hi! Who is this?

VINNO. Vinno. How are you?

SHARI (interesting). Fine, thanks. How about you? What are you doing right now?

VINNO. I’m fine too. I’m in management program. Are you still studying in Semarang?

SHARI. Of course, I am.

VINNO. Who is your boy friend?

SHARI (lying). I’m single, bro. Would you be my match-maker?

VINNO. Your what?? Come on.. Are you serious?

SHARI. Sure, why not? I’ve been a single for 5 months.

VINNO. You must be kidding.

SHARI (licking the lips). I’m not kidding. It’s true.

VINNO. Okay. Anyway, I have to eat my dish. I’ll call you soon.

SHARI. Okay. Bye. (VINNO leaves the stage and SHARI gazes to her mobile phone). Oh my Gosh, I can’t believe who was calling me recently. It is Vinno. He was my crush. Hope, he will call me again. (Then, her cell phone chirps) Wew, it’s my boyfriend, Rufi. He sent a message. (She replies sms and continues monologue). He knows Vinno too, because Rufi was his classmate when they’re in high school. I hope they two never meet again (The maid enters the stage.)

THE MAID. Excuse me, Miss. Someone wants to meet you.

SHARI (looking questioningly). Who?

THE MAID. He said that he is your nephew. I think his name is Dony.

SHARI. Oh.. Sure, take him to my room. Thank you.

THE MAID. Certainly, Miss. (THE MAID leaves the stage, DONY enters.)

DONY. (grinning) Hello, my beautiful nephew. Hope, I’m not disturbing you.

SHARI. Hi, bro. You see, I’m not busy. What makes you visit me here? It’s little bit strange. Are you in a trouble? What can I do for you?

DONY. Hey, don’t be so suspicious. I just want to be your match-maker.

SHARI (shocking). My match-maker?? With whom??

DONY. Of course with Vinno. He’s nice and tall, like you. I think you two are right.

SHARI (blushing). Uhm…… But I don’t think we can…

DONY (screaming). Why can’t? Vinno and you are single, right?

SHARI (lying). Yeah. But………….

DONY (interrupting). Come on. I don’t wanna know. You are my nephew, he is my best friend. Anything else?

SHARI. Okay. I’ll see what I can do. I can’t promise anything.

DONY (smiling). Thanks. I’ll go to Vinno’s house. Bye.

SHARI. Bye, bro. Be careful then. (DONY leaves the stage) Oh God, what I must do. (She shakes her head) I have a boyfriend already. (She walks back and forth then sits again and falls asleep.)

SCENE 2. The stage is full with shelves of DVD. It is arranged by the genre of the film. The background is window glasses which show the parking area of the DVD rental. There are some motorcycle and two cars. VINNO enters the stage, viewing the kids section. Then RUFI enters and sees VINNO. He walks to him.

RUFI (greeting friendly). Hi, Fella! What’s up?

VINNO (giving a welcoming hug). Fine, thanks. How about you?

RUFI (smiling). Fine, too. Are you going to rent DVD?

VINNO. Yeah, I return other films too. (He pulls out his cell phone of the pocket of his shorts, RUFI accidentally sees the wallpaper of VINNO’s mobile) Anyway, I don’t have your newest number. Please, give it to me.

RUFI (seeing the wallpaper clearer). Okay. 0818xxxxx.

VINNO (pressing the key pad). I have saved it. (He shows his cell phone) As matter of fact, I let u to guess who is the girl in my wallpaper?

RUFI (blinking in few second). Well………I think….. She is Shari?

VINNO (saying in a breathy, excited way). Definitely, she is. Who the hell are you thinking? (He nods her head) What do you think?

RUFI (stares straight at him). I…..don’t……know…. I feel my head is spinning.

VINNO (murmuring continuously). Oops. Sorry, I don’t mean to hurt you or to remind about your ex-girlfriend. I admire her and want to make her mine. I just want to hear your opinion. (He sees RUFI worriedly) Rufi?

RUFI (very carefully). I’m fine.

VINNO. I have called her and sent romantic messages to her recently. (TIAN enters the stage.)

TIAN (looking surprisingly). How ya doin’,dude? Long time no see.

VINNO (offering excitedly). I know. I think we have to hang out together sometimes, like when we were still in high school.

TIAN (asking innocently). Hey, do you know that Rufi and Shari have been together again?

VINNO (looking blankly). Gosh. Are you kidding? I think they have broken up.

TIAN (explaining briefly). Yes, they were. But they get back together again. I never lie to you, bro!

RUFI (gazing expressionless). Tian, let’s go home. My head is spinning. I think I have headache.

TIAN. Okey dokey, man! (To VINNO) Bro, we have to say goodbye now. Glad to see you. Ciao!

VINNO. Bye! See you around. (RUFI and TIAN leave the stage first, and then VINNO.)

SCENE 3. On the stage there are two leather couches, one in the right side and the other is in front of it. A coffee table is between of them. There is a stand lamp in the corner of the right stage. The background is a small garden. They illustrate a living room. SHARI enters the stage, she brings a magazine and her cell phone. Then she sits in the one of the couch. THE MAID enters.

THE MAID (offering). What do you want to drink, Miss?

SHARI. Um…. No, thanks.

THE MAID. If you need something, please call me, Miss. Excuse me.

SHARI. Okay. (THE MAID leaves the stage, someone knocks the door) Who is that?

VINNO. It’s me Vinno.

SHARI. Oh.. Wait. (She combs her hair with her fingers and tidies her clothes, then go to the right stage to welcome VINNO) Come in. Please, have a seat.

VINNO (sitting carefully). Thank you.

SHARI (smiling). Where have you been? What do you want to drink?

VINNO. I have been in my brother house. Um… A glass of mineral water, please. (SHARI leaves the stage and returns with a glass of mineral water, putting it in the table). Thanks, girl.

SHARI (sitting). You’re welcome. What’s the matter?

VINNO. Nothing. Have you had your lunch?

SHARI (blushing). Yeah. Thanks for your attention.

VINNO. To my surprise, when I want a movie rental this afternoon I met one of your ex-boyfriend.

SHARI (thinking). My ex-boyfriend? Who?

VINNO. Rufi. I have known it.

SHARI (surprising). You have known ? About what?

VINNO. About your relationship with Rufi. I knew it from your friend.

SHARI (feeling guilty). Oh..

VINNO (crying). For the God’s sake, why didn’t you tell me that you have retrieved Rufi again?

SHARI (confusing). Um… I was thinking to talk about it, but I wait the right time to say.

VINNO (repeating slowly). Wait the right time.

SHARI (stammering). I’m just… I mean-if I met you earlier, you would hear it from me directly. I can explain it to you.

VINNO. Ok. I understand. I think I have to go now, it’s getting dark. Bye.

SHARI. All right. Bye. (VINNO leaves the stage) Oh no. I’m dead. I’m such an idiot. Oh, God. (SHARI leaves the stage, someone knocks the door, THE MAID enters and faces the right stage.)

THE MAID. Good night. Who do you want to meet?

RUFI. I wanna meet Shari. Is she inside?

THE MAID. Yes. Please, wait. (THE MAID leaves the stage, SHARI enters.)

SHARI (sitting beside him). Hi..

RUFI. Hi.. Just talk to me. Honestly, what have you done with my friend?

SHARI. I……haven’t done nothing.

RUFI. Come on, Babe. Let’s make clearer. What if my photograph is shown in other person’s mobile phone? What will you do?

SHARI (thinking). I will be proud if it happens, because it means I don’t choose the ugly boy.

RUFI. Oh my God. Please, don’t be so innocent. Talk to me. Pleeeeeaaaasssseeeeee…

SHARI. Talk about what?

RUFI. Yesterday, I met my friend He’s Vinno, you must know him. When I saw his cell phone, he showed to me that the wallpaper is your photograph.

SHARI. Well, I don’t know about that.

RUFI. Admit it, Shari. Please…

SHARI (babbling). Honestly, I was like Vinno. I didn’t tell him that I have you, I have a boyfriend. I really apologize what I’ve done to you. I regret why I could do that. Please, forgive me. I don’t mean to hurt or to cheat on you. Will you forgive me?

RUFI (shaking his head). Ok. Ok. I forgive you. Let’s start from the beginning.

SHARI (smiling). Thanks. You’re the best.

(SHARI hugs RUFI happily . The curtain slowly comes down.)

Semarang, 15^th November 2007

ShortDrama

Ki Harsono SiswocaritoTHE PRIMADONNA OF SOKALIMA

PLAYERS
SRIKANDI, a primadonna of SokalimaARJUNA, a playboy of Sokalima
BIMA, a campus warrior
KUMBAYANA, a lecturer of Sokalima
ASWATAMA, a son of Kumbayana
WILUTAMA, an ex-partenr of Kumbayana
DRUPADA, the president of Pancala
GANDAMANA, an adjuvant of Pancala
BURISRAWA, a love Salesman
DURSASANA, a regent-in-the-making
DURMAGATI, an engineer-in-the-making
SAKUNI, a police officer
KARTAMARMA, a lieutenant colonel
CITRAKSI, a major
CITRAYUDA, a corporal
NAGAGINI, a princess of Saptapertala
BANOWATI, a supermodel
SURTIKANTI, a princess of Mandraka
DURSILAWATI, a princess of Astina

ACT 1

Jasmine blooms facing the day
Roses bloom and wildly gleam
Flowers of Tulip and Sakura
Thou art the worldly shawl!

SCENE 1. SOKALIMA STATES UNIVERSITY. —The beats of the drum accompany the glorious steps of the primadonna of Sokalima. A super contemporary chick! She is the cathexis object of every boy. Moreover, a playboy like ARJUNA, she can make him roll his eyes. Her name is top n pop—SRIKANDI. On her beauty, look into " The Notes of Si Kumbang Kampus,” ARJUNA depicts her below—

“Kandy is really a super trendy chick. Her lips are as sweet as lipstick ad. Her eyes are as exotic as eyeshadow ad. Her hairstyle is like styling foam ad. Her fragrance is as unique as perfume ad. Her clothes are as trendy as fashion ad. Her body's as sexy as bikini ad. Her style's as attractive as L’Poseur is. Her brain's smarter than computer. Her attitude's emancipatorily practical. Her hobbies are displaying n showing off. Her ideals are gorgeous and famous. Her idol is artist-oriented. Her music is rock. Her love is patented n trusted. Her slogan—reading, idealizing, and working!”

Gee! ARJUNA is genius! How sophisticated he depicts the image of the super contemporary chick. Differ from the style of orthodox artists! Look at the style: what are those lambene gula satemplik, halisna ngajeler paeh, and soon? Moreover an abstract—all beauties are shattered and destroyed. Never mind— as you like. Listen to his chlise slogans, “The forms of art embody their own laws, not the reason to push us in daily life,” said Viktor Sjiklovski. ARJUNA does not agree at all. For him, “Art is deformation!” It's ok!
SRIKANDI walks like on a catwalk. Her attitude is challenging like Jane d’Arc. Her sunglasses decorate her new wave hair. Her eyes shine wildly like a blitz. Her appearance makes Dr KUMBAYANA quickly jump out from his office through the window. Gosh--how obstinate the doctor is. He wants to chase SRIKANDI. He estimates highly the primadonna of his campus. Wow! Although he has a son as old as SRIKANDI, Dr KUMBAYANA does not care and prex-cuek. Because of his million puberty, he goes ahead!
Besides, WILUTAMA, the samen-leven partner of Dr KUMBAYANA, has uncertain room. When ASWATAMA was as little as mice, WILUTAMA fled because she was never given money for shopping. The salary of the doctor is always minim. Looking for part time teaching is only permitted for 4 SCU, doing corruption is impossible. He is not a bureaucrat! And … sst--remember! Waskat! Nah you are dead!
Instead of being dizzy for a thousand circles, it is better for him to look for a cheap entertainment. Dr KUMBAYANA approaches his campus primadonna. The gang of Kurawa makes riot and whistle. Burisrawa the champion of flirting spontaneously sells love for sale, teasing his lecturer.
BURISRAWA: Hellaouw, Kandy--Madonna of my campus. Why do you like being approached by such an odd-old widower? It's better with me, come on? It should be desirous!

(SRIKANDI rolls her eyes, but she is cinematically pretty. Dr KUMBAYANA opens his eyes wide because of being shot by his bad tempered students.)

DURSASANA (laughing). Huahahaha... she is fit with me. This is--a student of government science--the candidate of Banjarjumut regent!

DURMAGATI: Zhe iz better with me, an engineer in the making future real-eztate zpezializt! Jeng Zri needn't be a victim of zabby apartment love. Make love in real-eztate--zophizticated, izn't it?

(Ignoring the satanic mocking! Immediately SRIKANDI goes to library. Left alone by her, Dr KUMBAYANA is madly annoyed. To compensate his anger, he crazily curses his students.)

KUMBAYANA: You all know not ethics, yea? Do you ask me for making you all fail in your exam? I'll give you all E grade! Verdoooven!

DURMAGATI: Zweet!

BURISRAWA: Youw threaten me, Doc? Youw kenow who I'm? Bureaucrat's son! Don't play with me if youw don't wanna be fired! Do youw understand, Doc?

(Dr KUMBAYANA can shake his head only. Than he goes away like Cakil who always looses in war.)

SCENE 2. THE LIBRARY.--In the reading room of the library, ARJUNA seems happy reading a novel written by Yudhistira, Arjuna Looks for Love. He does not care of the appearance of SRIKANDI. Neither does he when Kurawa ce-es liar-brutally follow the primadonna into the bookshelf corridor. The reading room changes into a sightseeing room. Because of his ill feelings, ARJUNA jumps his butt in a hurry, going away without saying.

SRIKANDI: Hey, Jun! Wait!

(ARJUNA turns his head. He looks at the primadonna with the frozen eyesight like ice stone. Uneven frozen! Just for etiquette he asks.)

ARJUNA: What's up?

SRIKANDI: Nothing--where are you going?

ARJUNA: Looking for privacy.

(Without waiting for reaction, ARJUNA steps away. Vacantly confused SRIKANDI is. BANOWATI, who is heavily gossiping with her friends, laughs wildly.)

BANOWATI: Eh, look--our primadonna hits an obstacle. Taste it! Never hope Bro Jun will care her yea. Is she prettier than I am? Here--a model!

(DURSILAWATI smiles like a donkey while looking at BANOWATI who gestures her sexy body.)

DURSILAWATI: But you loose be-bra, Ban.

BANOWATI: What is be-bra?

DURSILAWATI: Loose beauty and brain!

BANOWATI: Never mind! The most important thing of all is sexy. I warranty it will succeed in rivalry. Brain is not important! Nah--what is the greatness of Srikandi who is truly pretty and smart? Moreover my approach to Arjuna has been done since I was at Kindergarten. Srikandi must be lost heavily!

SURTIKANTI (calmly smiling): Unfortunately I have engaged with Bro Awangga. If not, I wanna take apart in rivalry with you. What is uneasy in flirting Arjuna?

DURSILAWATI: Break him, Kanti. Let him be my lover.

SURTIKANTI: As you wish!

(Laughing-bomb explodes in the middle of them. Over there, SRIKANDI still stands uneven-frozen, gazing at ARJUNA who goes away and lost eaten by the edge of the campus. She wakes up from her uneven-frozen standing when ASWATAMA gives her a navy-blue enveloped letter. She says thanks and then buzzes off.)


Coppercolored cloud in the sky
Western makes dark hurily
Evening is embraced stickly
By the night lonely!
SCENE 2. PANCALA.--SRIKANDI closes the door of her bedroom. Slowly she opens the letter from ASWATAMA. Actually, Dr KUMBAYANA writes the letter. Wow--dad is made in date by his son!--thinks SRIKANDI. Its content is seduction! After reading the letter, she throws it out through a window.
Outside, the letter on his forehead beats GANDAMANA--the adjuvant of GENERAL DRUPADA, the father of SRIKANDI. He takes and reads it while walking: --

Dear Srikandi,

Thou art prettier than Juliet is
My love to thee more than Romeo!
The accessory in thy breast
Makes me jealous like Othelo
To Desdemona!

Mit der Liebe
Dr Kumbayana

GANDAMANA is surprised. Secretly he falls in love with the princess of his boss. His envy suddenly boils like rivaling Candradimuka crater. Like thunder he jumps into his military jeep. Then he goes with the gas! Looking at the attitude of the young adjuvant, picket officers stand stupor like buffalo.
Vice nightmare
To rival hell
The dark way
The military jeep rolls super speedily. Suddenly, the breaks scream, breaking the sky. The vehicles that dodge the satanic jeep, one goes to the valley, one hits street hookers, one crashes street vendors, and … etc. GANDAMANA cares nothing! From inside the jeep the voice heard: --

"I don't care anymore! Love is more important than catastrophe, more excellent that ethics! Go to hell Kumbayana--you're dead!"

SCENE 4. SOKALIMA.--Everything is in hurry, GANDAMANA turns his drive left. The jeep moves like a ballet dancer. In front of Dr KUMBAYANA's house, the jeep stops. GANDAMANA jumps down. His steps are resolute, steady-sturdy like Commando. His face is wildly vice more than terrorist!
GANDAMANA: Kumbayana--get out!

(His scream welcomes the dumb night. However, inside the house it is heard knees clash, trembling anxiously. GANDAMANA kicks and breaks down the door. Dr KUMBAYANA hides in the space under his bed; he keeps on clashing his knees! The steady steps of the radial sky-high boots come closely. The bed trembles inevitably. The radial boots step closer and closer. The Rambo model of the riffle-barrel touches the nose of Dr KUMBAYANA.

GANDAMANA: Choose your head explodes, or hands up?

KUMBAYANA: I'm dead! Yes-yes… I am g-going o-out! B-but d-don't s-shoot me, Sir.

(However, Dr KUMBAYANA can not stand up and out his hide. Roughly and impolitely GANDAMANA grabs him out.)

KUMBAYANA: D-don't s-shoot me, Sir. You can take TV, video, or all my salary….

GANDAMANA: Shut up! I'm not a robber! Follow me!

KUMBAYANA: You wanna make me a hostage, Sir? It's in vain, Sir. I'm not VIP, politician, nor high bureaucrat. I'm just a mere honorary worker, Sir.

GANDAMANA: You've used a wrong pen. You should be punished heavily because you've bravely teased the general's princess!

KUMBAYANA: Punish me? But where is your letter of duty to arrest me?

GANDAMANA: I don't need it!

KUMBAYANA: But, Sir--this is a law state. Although I'm wrong, I hope you use a legal procedure.

GANDAMANA: Prex! The world of knight knows only hitting, beating, and fighting. I want to prove if Kumbayana is truly powerful ora tedhas tapak paluning pandhe--eh, sorry--it's obsolete! I mean, the product of nuclear technology, missile, etc.!

KUMBAYANA: Wow, Sir--mercy me! I just a mere brahmana intellectual, Sir.

GANDAMANA: What do you mean, Doc?

Dr Kumbayana smiles while looking at Gandamana withers his vice face. He does not idle this opportunity.

KUMBAYANA: Nah! Sir, do you want to know the meaning of brahmana intellectual? Goed! He is the man whose skull is full of scientific and technological and philosophical maxims but his heart if full of jopa-japu!

(GANDAMANA frowns his forehead. His Rambo-like riffle is handed down. Dr KUMBAYANA feels horrible no more. He thinks his polemology succeeds. The wildly vice face withers like a cheap cloth.)

GANDAMANA: What is jopa-japu? Is it like a magic sentence, Doc?

KUMBAYANA: O, no! Eh, yes. Nah--that's it! But a sacred formula is different from prayer. Do you know, Sir?

GANDAMANA: O?

KUMBAYANA: Even if you wanna know--there is a modern magic sentence that can make man be whatever he wanna be. It's true, Sir.

GANDAMANA: What is it, Doc?

(Dr KUMBAYANA tries to remember a modern magic sentence. In the style of a poet he read it: --

Papaliko arukabazuku kodega suzukalibu tutuk liba dekodega zamzam lagotokoco

By Gosh! It derives from "Husspuss" written by Sutardji Calzoum Bachri. Rather! GANDAMANA feels like a loser. Because of his hate and anger a jab like Tyson's hits the nose of Dr KUMBAYANA. A Tae Kwon Do kick of GANDAMANA makes the left hand of his target deformed. The bad faith Doctor falls to the ground.)

The earth quacks, the sky quacks!
Leaving the dark in his wink!
SCENE 5. HOSPITAL.--Sokalima is in an uproar! Dr KUMBAYANA bruises until blue and black. ASWATAMA is powerless. He does not know who has made her father knock out. Last night after making a date with DURSILAWATI, he found his home was messy and his father fell into a gutter like rat. He thinks it was a bloody robber. But nothing's lost except the buttons of his father's shirt fell off confusedly. The investigation result of private detective is positively not a robbery, but violence.

In the waiting room of the hospital, ASWATAMA is confusedly thinking. When a doctor gets out of ICU, he approaches him.
ASWATAMA: How's my dad, Doc?

DOCTER: Emm--good. The concussion of his brain can be cured, but his physical defect is inevitable. Especially, the mouth, nose, and left hand of Dr Kumbayana can not be perfectly remedied like before.

(ASWATAMA is drooping in the heart. He falls into a chair with x legs. His eyes are low-bat. The doctor just smiles sourly. Sour-sad! Through the glass, the sky looks like a shroud. A carved face is weakly bounded and bloody wounded. Dr KUMBAYANA lies down there. In the interval of his mourning his delirium utters, "papaliko… bazuku… suzu… ibu…" Anxiously sad is ASWATAMA. He looks at a hundred tubes of infuse alternately resist the death. In sadness time is felt too slowly.)

ACT 2

Mute mouth morning
Without word without
Asking without greeting!

SCENE 1. HOSPITAL.--ASWATAMA breathes loudly! He opens his daily notes: Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday… Sunday, Sunday, Sunday--and so many Sundays are over and over, Dr KUMBAYANA has not get well, too. Slowly but surely, ASWATAMA writes his pen down: --

"Only date changes; but day does not alter. My dad is still dull. His case is frozen. De polis ken du nating! Perhaps it is entered to a refrigerator. My darling, Dursilawati the fat, is also ominous. Near the corpse room, she still asks for getting 68. She says, "Love never knows agony!" Gee my knee! 68 again and again 68. A crazy puzzle! She likes whatever hot: hot martabak cake, or hot Bandung cake. How greedy she is! I just eat a piece and she has eaten five. Fit with her radial teeth like a tractor tire! Rather ondel-ondel Betawi she is! No matter!"

Heard the steady steps come closer. ASAWATAMA closes his book. From the mouth of the corridor comes ARJUNA.

ARJUNA: G'morrow, Tom! Does Mr. Doctor get better?

ASWATAMA: G'monin, Fren--yeah as you see!

ARJUNA: What is the result of the police's investigation?

ASWATAMA: Nix.

ARJUNA: Sure? May and may not be. I'll try to chase the traces. Vice can not run, but to hell.

ASWATAMA: Yes, Fren--smes it! Yu'll be ol rait.

(ARJUNA understands the sloppy English dialect of ASWATAMA. After visiting Dr KUMBAYANA, ARJUNA uproots his legs.)

ARJUNA: G'bye, Tom!

ASWATAMA: G'bay, Fren!

(The mouth of the corridor swallows ARJUNA wholly. He disappears!)

The brief news
Hunts the event
Sign of Kurawa
Do the demo!
SCENES 2. ASTINA.--LIET.GEN SAKUNI, the metropolitan police chief of Astina, holds a briefing. LIEUT.COL KARTAMARMA sits while rolling his moustache, which is like bar jail. MAJOR CITRAKSI nods his head not for understanding his boss's instruction but for feeling sleepy. CORPORAL CITRAYUDA falls asleep and slobbers.
SAKUNI: The result of politically motivated investigation is positive that the hitter of Dr Kumbayana is Bima! For the only one with Ambon banana-like fingers is Bima. No doubt anymore--catch Bima the bastard. Done!

KARTAMARMA: Yes, Sir!

(After giving respect to his boss, LIEUT.COL KARTAMARMA turns to elbow his subordinates. Lick there and elbow here are deeply rooted in the tradition! The bad culture is inevitable. Such an ulcer does not need bounding--amputate it.)

KARTAMARMA: Jor-Major--wake up! Sleeping all the time. Get up, Jor!

MAJOR CITRAKSI makes a snoring contest with CORPORAL CITRAYUDA. LIEUT.COL KARTAMARMA has his own way to wake up his subordinates.)

KARTAMARMA: Major, I've a bonus!

CITRAKSI: Where is it? Gimme a devident, Overste!

CITRAYUDA: Fifty-fifty is ok, Ov, with subordinates.

(LIEUT.COL KARTAMARMA cynically smiles. Nah you! If so, like or not subordinates should be discipline. They can do nothing but doing their duty.)

SCENE 3. THE PARK--Because BIMA is not a refugee, he is easily found. In the park, he is dating with his darling--NAGAGINI. LIEUT.COL KARTAMARMA manages an arresting strategy.)

KARTAMARMA: Good! Bima has a date with a sissy. Be careful don't go off! Do you have a sophisticated way to catch him, Major?

CITRAKSI: Easy! Directly shoot him, like a mysterious sniper.

KARTAMARMA: Hush--blindly talking! It's the last way. Remember--we should take care de police's image.

CITRAYUDA: I think it is better to use penyirepan magic formula to make Bima fall asleep and catch him. Finish, right?

KARTAMARMA: You can do it, Pral?

CITRAYUDA: Yes of coz. Who else I do!

CITRAKSI: Alaaa--you just show off. Try, I wanna know.

(CORPORAL CITRAYUDA puts his hands on his chest. His eyes are closed. His mouth mumbles, spelling the magic formula: --

Rep sirep si megandana,
Wong sarewu pada tumut,
Salaksa wong serah nyawa.

There is no reaction. BIMA and his lover are more intimate. MAJOR CITAKSI starts yawning widely; but actually, he has lethargy. LIEUT.COL KARTAMARMA stands uneven frozen. Such a situation makes BIMA passionate. Moreover his darling likes sinking her face in his chest.)

KARTAMARMA: Thirteen times dangerous, Pral! Let's arrest him!

CITRAYUDA: Wait. Look--Bima starts sleeping. Her lover falls asleep in his hands.

KARTAMARMA: Gee--actually the man is in action, not sleeping, Pral. How stupid you are!

(Unpredictably, BIMA throws a bottle and it hits the forehead of LIEUT.COL KARTAMARMA. No mercy, he falls unconsciously. His body falls down like a banana tree cut by a sword. The red-sleepy eyes of MAJOR CITRAKSI open widely like a traffic light. Red-yellow-green!)

CITRAKSI: Let's arrest him, Pral!

(BIMA is surprised like a pickpocket snapped by CORPORAL CITRAYUDA. NAGAGINI horribly trembles. BIMA stands up. He looks at the rural cowboy-like faces of MAJOR CITRAKSI and CORPORAL CITRAYUDA. BIMA thinks they are the rascals who like pretending to be warriors and seeking a story. By manly attitude like a champion, BIMA steps forward, ready to make war.)

CITRAKSI: Give up, Man!

(The hand with a pistol points directly to the nose of BIMA. Attacking with lightening speed he grabs it and his fist hits the side-whiskers of the Major. Looking at his boss knocked out at the first minute, CORPORAL CITRAYUDA takes his pistol. Having no chance to shoot, a three hundred-kologram-jab hits his bottled stomach. No mercy anymore the bad faith corporal is thrown away outside the park, falling into the black gutter. That's an extra show--say people. BIMA cleans his sleeves. NAGAGINI who has been standing frozenly in the edge of the park runs to her lover. BIMA embraces her.)

NAGAGINI: Are you ok, Honey? I feel horrible--but infatuated, too. Your style is like Mr. T the star of The A Team!

(BIMA smiles calmly. The couple do "cup-mmmh-cup-mmmh", and than go away.)

The hot day
Greets unlucky day
SCENE 4. THE HEADQUARTER.--LIEUT.GEN SAKUNI is mocking his subordinates.

SAKUNI: Stupid! Doing such a duty you fail!

KARTAMARMA: In fact, he is invulnerable by a magic formula.

SAKUNI: Magic? What is that? How stupid you are! Use you brain. Shot with anaesthetic bullet--finished!

CITRAKSI: That's right! With an anaesthetic bullet, I warranty that Bima will be suffocated. Let's go Pral!

"The Hitter of Dr Kumbayana captured!"

SCENE 5. SOKALIMA.--ARJUNA opens his eyes widely when he reads the news of Astina Voice. BIMA is sent to the court. ARJUNA feels confused--why is BIMA, his brother, arrested and accused of hitting Dr KUMBAYANA? It's slander!--thinks ARJUNA. His own investigation is still in a half way: the shabby letter written by Dr KUMBAYANA, can be found in his trash basket. It involves the name of the primadonna of Sokalima--SRIKANDI.

In the verandah of the campus, BANOWATI stops ARJUNA.

BANOWATI: Jun, accompany me for shopping. Is it OK?

ARJUNA: Oops--sorry, Ban. I'm really busy.

BANOWATI: Just for a while, why, Jun?

ARJUNA: I can't, Ban. I've an important case!

(BANOWATI is sad, failing to ask ARJUNA for dating. Unfortunately, she has a bet with SURTIKANTI and DURSILAWATI. ARJUNA does not care of her disappointed face. The humble letter asks him for visiting SRIKANDI's house.)

SCENE 6. PANCALA.--After writing his ID in a guest book handed by the vice-face GANDAMANA, ARJUNA goes to the guestroom. SRIKANDI appears and smiles as sweet as a lipstick ad. Her body looks so sexy wearing tight jeans and a fit T-shirt. ARJUNA who knows by heart Katuranggan Perawan spontaneously classifies her into a type of Gedang Kencana or Mitra Dharma woman!
SRIKANDI: Come in, Jun. At last you would like to come here, too.

ARJUNA: Danke! I need you help, Kandy.

SRIKANDI: O-yea? What's that?

ARJUNA: Do you know this letter?

(Looking at the humble letter written by Dr KUMBAYANA in ARJUNA's hands, SRIKANDI is startled like turtle. ARJUNA smiles calmly.)

SRIKANDI: I threw the letter away. Why now is it in you, Jun?

ARJUNA: I found it in the trash basket of Dr Kumbayana. Did you send it back?

SRIKANDI: Ah, no! What's the matter, Jun?

ARJUNA: This letter relates to the hitting of Dr Kumbayana. And, Bima has been the victim of miss-arrest. It's impossible for him to violate his lecturer.

SRIKANDI: Then you accuse me, Jun?

ARJUNA: No, Kandy. Maybe there is a man who feels jealous because of you, and then violates the writer of this letter. Do you have a boyfriend, Kandy?

SRIKANDY: Em… no, Jun. Papa forbids me to have a lover. He says, "Ideal first, then love!" Besides, Mr. Ganda's guarding is very tight.

(Lucky!--thinks ARJUNA. He looks at her with a sticky sight. Manly eyes! SRIKANDI seems very shy. Her cheeks blush and sum her beauty. She uproots her sight from the edge of the sofa. Then she tries to gaze bravely at the super-cute boy in front of her. But it's messy. Her sight crashes with his sight. A Richard Gere-like smile depicts the sweet lips of ARJUNA. Spontaneously SRIKANDI's heart beats in rivalry with the drumbeats of Phil Collins.)

ARJUNA: Excuse me--see you later, Kandy.

SRIKANDI: So hurry? Where are you going, Jun?

ARJUNA: You know--an amateur detective! G'bye, Kandy.

SRIKANDI: Yoo-bye!

SCENE 7. FRONT YARD OF PANCALA PALACE.--ARJUNA is about to step out of the hedge, a heavy voice heard calling. He looks around. GANDAMANA stands by his military jeep. His vice face does not conform at all.
GANDAMANA: Never try to tease the General's princess, if you don't wanna have a bad faith like Dr Kumbayana. Look at these--my right hand is hospital, my left hand is hell!

ARJUNA: O, I see--this is the hitter of Dr Kumbayana?

GANDAMANA: Yes--what do you want?

ARJUNA: So manly! Or it's because of an adjuvant? Prex! Justice is more important than status.

GANDAMANA: Never pretend to be heroic, Boy! Be a coward to save yourself.

ARJUNA: Prex ah! A man like you'd better be a citizen of prison. Go to jail, Man!

(Suddenly GANDAMANA jumps, his fist is ready to hit ARJUNA's head. But miss it! The hitter is vexed; his anger flares up rivaling Iran's oil refinery bombed by Iraq. The battle is inevitable. Physically, ARJUNA looses big; but tactically, he wins smartly. It is not strange if GANDAMANA is not able to cope with, then takes his commando-knife. Wildly-madly the knife flies directly toward ARJUNA's chest. Speedily like a thunder ARJUNA grabs it, and his kicking is enough to make GANDAMANA fall to the ground, kissing hot asphalt. GANDAMANA tries to stand up. He holds the side of his jeep. While tottering like a drunkard's style, he takes his Rambo-like riffle. Then it is pointed directly to ARJUNA.)

GANDAMANA: He-he-he… you're dead, Boy!

ARJUNA: OK! You are dead, too, if you know who I'm.

GANDAMANA: Who are you, huh?

ARJUNA: Arjuna! I'm the son-in-law candidate of General Drupada.

(The riffle ready to "BANG" slowly goes down. It is not because of ARJUNA's bluffing, but because of GENERAL DRUPADA's coming with SRIKANDI.)

DRUPADA: What are you doing Captain?

GANDAMANA: He has tortured my self-esteem, General.

DRUPADA: Is it right, Arjuna?

ARJUNA: Lie, Uncle! He talks blindly. Actually, he asked me first to fight. He is the hitter of Dr Kumbayana, Uncle.

SRIKANDI (surprised): Why are you so reckless, Ganda?

GANDAMANA: It's because of thee Young Lady--I love thee.

(Hearing such a confession, SRIKANDI is uneven-frozen. ARJUNA smiles funnily. Crazy! The sight of GANDAMANA falls into the edge of GANDAMANA's boots.

DRUPADA: You should be responsible to the risk of this case, Captain! En it's impossible for me to protect what you did. Justice is more powerful than status.

(The prisoner vehicle picks GANDAMANA up. For a while he gazes at the primadonna of Sokalima. SRIKANDI looks at him until he is lost eaten by a bend street. Then she turns to throw her eyes to ARJUNA beside her. ARJUNA welcomes her with a "cup-mmmh" smile. The love flowers bloom in the heart of SRIKANDI, challenging the playboy falling in love with her. Cup-mmmh--CUT! The intimacy of the campus primadonna and the campus playboy is greeted by the Greatest Love of All song sung by the super black sweet Whitney Houston.)

Semarang, 6 Pebruary 2008