Happy Salma Grogi Will Show Pramoedya Ananta Toer's Work Monologically

Happy Salma (Virgilery / VOI)

JAKARTA - Happy Salma will be involved in the anniversary of a century of the birth of writer Pramoedya Ananta Toer, which was initiated by Pramoedya Ananta Toer Foundation in collaboration with the Garuda People's Home Community, #SeAbadPram.

In this event, Happy Salma will bring back the Human Earth monologue after 9 years ago and has also featured it.

"I personally and the Titi Mangsa Foundation are very happy to be involved in this activity. I will bring a short monologue, about 20-30 minutes, which is picked up or comes from one of Pram's works," said Happy Salma at Taman Ismail Marzuki, Central Jakarta, Tuesday, January 21.

"This opportunity is also an interesting collaboration and collaboration with friends in Blora, because there will also be reading of Pram's letters by junior high school students from Blora," he said.

Happy admitted that he is currently trying to memorize and appreciate Pramoedya Ananta Toer's work so that he can perform optimally.

"Preparation is healthy. Healthyly, I dare to memorize the script again, which is actually 30 minutes, it's not too long compared to the original stage which is almost 2 hours but because the script is quite nutritious and has a lot of ideas. very Pram," said Happy Salma.

"So I also can't escape one or two words because I know that a lot of people who read their works also think that Pram's work is part of the heart's calling for the inner solidarity of humanity," he continued.

Happy Salma could not deny that he was nervous to return to show the work of a figure he admired. "I'm very happy, I'm going back to wearing Nyai Ontosoroh's kebaya," he said.