INTERRUPTION CONCEPT IN “AWAK TAM ONG” PLAY BY TEATER KOSONG OF ACEH

Abstract

Comedy drama as a media of communication plays a role in
enlightening the people who support it. Comedy drama is a
means to express idea and thought as well as philosophical
values comically or even to spread propaganda. Drama series
Komedi Ampon Yan (Ampon Yan Comedy) usually borrows
the elements of other art forms to support its work and
one of them is the concept of interruption owned by folk
theater. Comedy play “Awak Tam Ong” is a story in Komedi
Ampon Yan series performed by Teater Kosong as an attempt
to interpret various conditions in Aceh after the tsunami attack,
such as social, cultural, politics, economy, law, ecology,
and religious conditions.