KADARIYAH AND LAKON SAN PEK ENG TAY IN KETOPRAK

Abstract

This article is a brief biographical study of one of Yogyakarta's ketoprak artists, Kadariyah. She
played the play Sam Pek Eng Tai in the Ketoprak Mataram Mardi Wandowo group (1932-1948). A
Chinese play performed in Javanese by the Ketoprak group. This research uses the historical method,
which is the search for historical sources including heuristics of both written and oral history sources,
source criticism and reconstruction as the historiography stage. Written sources in the form of
newspapers or magazines are also used to view historical events. Historical construction or
historiography here is based on historical actors as a result of direct interviews with Kadariyah. This
research resulted in the finding that stage costumes are not Mesiran, but Chinese costumes. The
world of ketoprak is different from the world of opera or toneel drama that presents the play Sam Pek
Eng Tai, if the benchmark is the use of language, namely Javanese. Stories are sourced from Chinese
chronicles or popular storybooks. Specific studies on Kadariyah with the San Pek Eng Tai play have
not been conducted by other researchers.