BWW Preview: Teater KataK to Stage THE MUSKETEERS, 23-25 September

After being launched as a legal entity in early June, independent KataK is set to stage its initial production entitled The Musketeers, adapted from a novel by notEd French writer Alexandre Dumas, at the Jakarta Art Building (GKJ) on Sept. 23 to 25.

Director Venantius Vladimir Ivan plans to blend humor, drama and romance in the play, in which KataK is collaborating with Bina Nusantara (Binus) University's English major drama club and contemporary dance club Serenity.

The Indonesian play is adapted from Dumas' famous novel The Three Musketeers, which was first published in 1844. The story was popular and well loved because Dumas succeeded to present historical fiction with romance throughout the narrative.

In recent years, KataK has staged some of the most popular plays from around the world at Jakarta's most prominent cultural centers. Those plays include The Marriage (2013), adapted from a play by Russian writer Nikolai Gogol; False Doctor (2014) by French dramatist Molière; The Cherry Orchard (2015) by Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, Hamlet (2015) by English poet William Shakespeare; and LES MISERABLES (2016) by French novelist Victor Hugo.

Later on June 3, 2016, the Law and Human Rights Ministry authorized KataK as a legal entity which was engaged in the cultural and social work. Hence, the group was officially established as an independent organization with no formal affiliation with the UMN, even though the UKM would still be run under campus authority. Hence, The Musketeers will be the first step of independent KataK troupe to preserve art and culture in the modern world.

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The Musketeers tells about a young, poor country boy from Gascogne named D'Artagnan, who travels to Paris to fulfill his lifelong dream to join the King's Musketeers. However, an accidental fight with Comte de Rochefort, an agent of Cardinal Richelieu, leads D'Artagnan to a turbid whirlpool of political intrique within the Kingdom of France.

Along with three Musketeers veterans, Athos, Porthos and Aramis, he struggles to stop Richelieu's scheming to provoke a war between France and England.

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