The Winner of Theater


            (Extraordinary Experience ), on August 2008, there was an announcement from my Indonesian teacher that there would be theater competition. The theater competition was organized by DINAS PENDIDIKAN of Ponorogo for the students of high school. My high school participated in the competition, so then my teacher opened an open audition to pick the school representatives. All students could participate in this open audition except for the third year students, because the third year students had to prepare for the national exam.
            I was interested to follow this competition, so I participated in the open audition. In this open audition, I had to compete with other students who got more talents than what I got . Although the audition was pretty tight, I kept following it .There some steps during the audition that I had to do. After I had followed the audition, I waited for the announcement from the teacher. Finally, there was notification included in member of theater group in my school, previously I don’t suppose if chosen. There was eight students that chose for represent school. I direct prepare self to follow to the activity which had been scheduled by teacher.
            Then I had to follow the training schedule that made by my teacher. On the first meeting, my teacher gave me two choices, to be a musician or a poetry reader. Then, I said that I wished to become the poetry reader and, thanked God, my teacher even also agreed with me. On the second meeting, my teacher showed us the drama script and started to practice the move. During the practice, I needed to practice 2 roles, a poetry reader and a warok reog dancer. During the training, we practiced for 4 straight hours. We were also trained by a local actor from Ponorogo, he was also representing the artistic builder and my teacher’s friend. There were many precious lessons that I got from him, for example: inspiring into a character, playing moves naturally, doing the effective dialogue methods, controlling soul emotion, etc. We liked it to practice with him, because he treated us as his friends. The training lasted from August 2nd to September 3rd, or more than a month. It was two days away from the D-day, all element was such as physical, costume, equipment, etc, was set. After we prayed together with the headmaster,  we went to the event place.
            September 05, 2008, was the D-day and I had to show a total performance on the stage. The competition was located in building, named cadika Ponorogo. My group were optimist that we could become a winner, but we should not be careless, because all other participants were also quite talented. On there I had to differentiate between friends and opponent since I got some friends from other schools which participated in this competition as well. All participants here only had one target, be a winner. My group could be a winner, only if each member could show the best performance and unify all the elements we need. And finally, it’s our turn to perform. I tried to keep head on and pray to Allah S.W.T, I hope that after doing all these efforts, we would get the maximum result. We had to minimallize the mistakes. It was more than fifteen minutes that we’d been on the stage, and finally, our performance had finally been over. We went back to the participant chairs. I was quite nervous, waiting for the result to be announced. But before that happened, we needed to wait for the other participants to perform.
            Finally, there came the thing that we’d waited the most,the announcement of the winner. It was kind of distressful for us to wait committee announcing the 3rd place and the 2nd place . And finally, the committee mentioned the 1st place and it turned to be my school. All crew from SMAZABA Ponorogo and I spontaneously doing sujud  because we were so grateful  to Allah SWT,for becoming the winner. Then, this news just spreading quickly to the school and even the local newspaper reported it. After that, in some other time, we performed in two other events which were held by DINAS PENDIDIKAN and local government of Ponorogo. In DINAS PENDIDIKAN event, we were performing for the celebration of KORPRI day. In the other event, the local government was celebrating the anniversary of 513th of Ponorogo. Our theme was “City Walk of Ponorogo”. This event was attended by the regent, functionaries of local government, and common people. 


Keyword: Theatre, winner, warok / warog , reog dancer, city walk of ponorogo, KORPRI, SMAZABA, DINAS PENDIDIKAN.

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