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Ketoprak (the Javanese language kethoprak) was a kind of theatre that came from Java.
In a performance ketoprak, the play that was come between with Javanese songs, that were accompanied with the gamelan was presented.
Related in a performance ketoprak various things.
Usually was taken from the legend story or the Javanese history.
Many were also taken related from overseas.
But the theme related had not been taken from the repertoire related epos (the epic): Ramayana and Mahabharata.
Because later showed not ketoprak again but to the performance of the person's puppet.
Several last years, emerged a new genre; Ketoprak Humor that was presented in the RCTI television station. The performance of this kind, often was put the element of the humour.
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