Fascinating 2016: BTB performs drama themed sin

Bradley Scott (A. Prasetyoaji) is trying to proof his innocent to the detective (Nanda S.D.) in front of 'his assassin' (Azzam Mustaqim)

Better Than Broadway (BTB) showed a Fascinating drama on Thursday (5/12) at theater building of Taman Budaya Jawa Tengah (TBJT). Merely 50 audiences and some lecturers attended the show.

Fascinating is a drama performance as a welcoming session for new members of BTB. The fascinating drama consisted of two short dramas with the title: The Interrogation as the first performance and The Afterlife as the second drama.
The two dramas based on the theme which was about sin. The show was started at 19:55 by Arif as the MC of the show. It continued to the speech session from the chief of the show, Zelin Feby Zeina S. and the Dean of Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Riyadi Santosa, who also belongs as one of the lecturers in English Department.

The first closing gate was at 20:13 to perform the first drama, The Interrogation, which spent duration time about 20 minutes. The drama’s script was written and directed by M. Rofiquzzaman (Azzam). It told about the judgment of a man named Bradley Scott who was accused killing his wife.  He finally was jailed because of that case. However, at the end of the story, the fact told the audience that Scott was not a murderer. He was just defamed by his business rival, Schmidt. He also didn’t kill the victim, but he had to pay a hurt responsibility for a sin made by another person.

Death (F. Adib Murtadla) prepares to send Arnold (Imron Hizbullah)
after hearing the judgement 

The second closing gate was at 20:46. Drama with the title The Afterlife was performed about 35 minutes. The drama was written and directed by Yonatan Dedi Kurniawan. The story began when the poor Charlotte was still waiting for her husband, Arnold Robinson, to wake up from the long coma after the accident 2 years ago. During the coma, Arnold suddenly woke up in somewhere unknown. He met Death, the death angel and also the one that determines a person should go to the hell or heaven. At that time, Arnold also met his two old friends that had been dead 6 years ago, named Dave and Sophia. They blamed Arnold because when they were still alive, Arnold fraudulent in reaching his success in the company. However, he tried to defend himself in order not to go to the hell but it was useless. With all of the evidence, Death finally decided to drag Arnold to the hell.

In the end of drama performance was the question and answer session. The two directors, Azzam and Yonatan were interviewed about their opinions in the performance and their preparation in writing the script also doing a casting for the characters.

“I wrote the script about 1.5 months ago. Well, I think, the most difficult character is the Detective. She should master the emotional character. I’m proud of her in this drama. She acts really well and mastered the character. Actually, all of the characters can be acted well. Thanks for all of the characters”, Azzam as the first drama’s director mentioned.

The second opportunity to tell about the drama was Yonatan, the writer and also the director of the second drama.

Yonatan said, “I need 3 months to prepare the concept while the script needs less than 1 month to finish. About the most difficult character I think Death, which is played by Adib because in this character, Adib must control his emotion, expression, intonation and volume of his voice when saying every dialogue. Overall, I really appreciate all of the effort of the characters in this drama. Well done”.

The performance finished at 22:00. It got positive comment from Karunia, as the advisor of BTB.

“I am satisfied of the performance. They act as amazing as always. I hope they will always do their job well. Hopefully, they will improve their performance better and better, so that they can do such a national or international performance in the future," said Karunia, the lecturer.