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Graha Bhakti Budaya theatre
Taman Ismail Marzuki, Jakarta
March 8-9, 2008

Performers
Three actors, experienced in film and on stage, will appear in this production. They are Rieke Diah Pitaloka, Ria Irawan and Vien Herman. They will perform the roles of a member of parliament, a sex worker and a housewife.

Synopsis
The Member of Parliament is always late to meetings because she must look after her husband and children first, before she can leave home. In the parliament she is often belittled and her ideas ignored.

A team of Tibum security, accompanied by other men, some wearing turbans, raids the sex worker. She is beaten and then detained. Among those the gang detaining her is one of her clients.

The housewife is constantly subjected to both physical and psychological abuse from her husband. She finds it hard to separate from her husband despite the beatings and deceit. It is the factor of love and the idea that her husband might change that holds her back.

One day, these three women meet. They tell of their experiences and of how they view men. They debate as to how to deal with these men, so close to them in their lives, but the source of so much pain.

Should they be jailed, these men. Should they be counselled thearapists or other experts? Should the women take their complaints to the various rights commissions? Or should they just a strike; refusing to sleep with these men until they stop their violence...