Lakon “ Dhanaraja”

Abstract

Karya ini mengajak masyarakat untuk menyikapi kerasnya kehidupan dengan konsep hidup orang jawa, yakni “Urip sadêrma nglakoni“, yang didasari semangat “Wong têmên bakalé kêtêmu”, dan diiringi dengan kesadaran bahwa “Urip manungsa pinasthi ing Pangéran”. Konsep hidup tersebut, selanjutnya ditransformasikan ke dalam lakon wayang dan pertunjukannya. Karya ini mentrasformasikan secara tepat konsep tersebut ke dalam lakon. Lakon yang dipilih adalah lakon “Alap-alapan Sukèsi” dan “Bêdhahing Lokapala” yang diramu menjadi satu lakon utuh dengan memfokuskan tokoh Prabu Dhanaraja. Penggubahan lakon “ Dhanaraja” diaktualisasikan ke dalam pertunjukan yang berdurasi waktu kurang lebih tiga jam. Karya ini memaparkan bagaimana cara meramu dua lakon menjadi satu dalam struktur yang utuh tanpa terlihat sekedar menempel, serta dengan mentranformasikan konsep “Urip sadêrma nglakoni“, yang didasari semangat “Wong têmên bakalé kêtêmu”, dan diiringi dengan kesadaran bahwa “Urip manungsa pinasthi ing Pangéran” ke dalamnya. Hal tersebut dilakukan dengan cara membangun konfl ik dan dramatika dalam rangkaian cerita yang disajikan.

Kata kunci: lakon, Dhanaraja, struktur dramatik, dramaturgi wayang

ABSTRACT
The story of Dhanaraja. This work is aimed to invite people responding the severe life with Javanese’s life concept,
that is “Urip sadêrma nglakoni’ (let the life fl ow), and that is based on the spirit of “Wong têmên bakalé kêtêmu” (success
can be achieved by hardworking and being honest), and that is also accompanied by an awareness that “Urip manungsa
pinasthi ing Pangéran” (people’s life is based on the destiny which has already arranged by God). This Javanese’s life
concept, then, is transformed into the wayang story and its performance. This work has truly transformed the concept
into a performance. The chosen performances are “Alap-Alap Sukesi” and “Bedhading Lokapala” which are managed
into a whole performance focusing on King Dhanuraja character. The composing story of Dhanaraja is actualized into a
three-hour-performance. This work describes how to manage two stories into one complete structure without merely seen
by attaching the stories, and also by transforming the concept of “Urip sadêrma nglakoni” (let the life fl ow), that is based
on the spirit of “Wong têmên bakalé kêtêmu” (success in life can be achieved by hardworking and being honest ), and
accompanied by an awareness that “Urip manungsa pinasthi ing Pangéran” (people’s life is based on the destiny which has
already arranged by God) into the performance. These previous things are carried out by developing the confl ict and the
dramatic sequence order of play performance.

Keywords: story, Dhanaraja, a dramatic structure, a wayang dramaturgy