STRAINS of the Internationale are being played.

“Please, rather softly, not too loud.”

Goenawan Mohamad is directing this work of his himself. That song, the national anthem of Russian communists during the time of Lenin, is heard as an illustration, playing faintly in the distance.

In front of Goenawan stands a set which is very expressionist. The set reminds us of the era of Russian theater in the 1920s, following the Bolshevik Revolutio