Threesome: A Play in One Act

Set in a small hotel in Yogyakarta, this play is a tale of thwarted aspirations and the mundane realities of adult life. It is also a commentary on the fluidity of sexual behavior as one female and two male characters try to ascertain the meaning of their relations with one another.

• Joned Suryatmoko, Author

  Joned Suryatmoko, playwright and media consultant, was born in 1976 and holds a Master’s degree in Media and Cultural Studies from Gadjah Mada University. Joned is most well-known for his work with the Gardanalla Theater group, which he established in 1997. His plays have been performed in Indonesia and abroad.

• John H. McGlynn, Translator

  John H. McGlynn has translated several dozen publications under his own name, and through the Lontar Foundation, which he co-founded in 1987, has ushered into print close to two hundred books on Indonesian language, literature, and culture. He is the Indonesian country editor for MĀNOA, a literary journal published by the University of Hawai'i Press the senior editor for I-Lit, an on-line journal focusing on Indonesian literature in translation; a contributing editor to Words Without Borders and Warscapes, U.S. based literary journals; and an editor advisor for Jurnal Sastra, an Indonesian-language on-line journal. He is also a frequent speaker at seminars both in Indonesia and abroad.

• Jan Budweg, Translator