Time Bomb and Cockroach Opera: Two Plays

by Nano Riantiarno, Barbara Hatley (Translator), John H. McGlynn (Translator)

Through street talk and raunchy humor Time Bomb and Cockroach Opera present a stinging critique of social injustice. In a slum on the banks of a fetid canal, society's victims, the cockroaches of this world ÄÄÄ the poor, prosititutes, beggars, and thieves ÄÄÄ play out their struggle with life. They are the bomb ready to explode. Time Bomb and Cockroach Opera, showing the dark "underside" to elite prosperity, subvert rather than affirm common assumptions.

179 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1992

About the author

Norbertus (Nano) Riantiarno (lahir di Cirebon, Jawa Barat, 6 Juni 1949) adalah seorang aktor, penulis, sutradara, wartawan dan tokoh teater Indonesia, pendiri Teater Koma (1977).