A PRETTY young woman wearing shorts is mopping the floor of the stage: she is mopping the front, between the black boxes that look like cupboards. A middle-aged man wearing a sort of T-shirt sitting cross-legged in the background is facing one of the boxes. The audiences imagination is being challenged: what is happening here?

The voice of the man (Miroto) is throwing about the room a recital of Javanese poetry: his is serious yet light, certainly