The Barong Play represents an eternal fight between good and evil spirit. Barong (a mythological animal) represents a good spirit and Rangda (a mythological monster) represents an evil one.
The dances start with music overtone:
Followed by his friend the monkey, the tiger comes up. Three masked dancers appear, representing men making palmwine in the forest, whose child are how killed by the tiger. The three men get angry and attack the tiger. The tiger is helped by the monkey. During the fight the nose of one of the three men is bitten of.
Act I
Two girl-dancers appear, representing the servants of the Rangda, looking for the servants of Dewi Kunti, who are on their way to meet their Patih (Prime Minister).
Act II
Two servants of Dewi Kunti appear. One of the servants of the Rangda changes into a witch and enters both servants to make them angry. They meet their Patih and go together to Dewi Kunti.
Act III
Dewi Kunti and her son Sadewa come up. Dewi Kunti has promished the Rangda to sacrifice Sadewa. A witch appears and enters Dewi Kunti. She becomes angry and orders the Patih to bring Sadewa into the forest. The Patih is also entered by a witch so he does not have pity on Sadewa. Sadewa is then taken into a forest and tied up to a tree.
Act IV
Unknown to Rangda, God Siwa, appears and gives Sadewa immortality. The Rangda appears, ready to kill Sadewa and eat him up but Sadewa is still alive. Rangda then surrenders and asks Sadewa to redeem her. Sadewa gets angry and kills the Rangda. The Rangda goes to heaven.
Act V
One of the servants of the Rangda called Kalika comes up before Sadewa and asks him to redeem her too. Sadewa refuses. Kalika gets angry, and changes herself into a boar and fights Sadewa. The boar is defeated. She then changes herself into a bird but is defeated again. At last she changes into a Rangda. Sadewa meditates and then changes himself into a Barong. Still the Rangda seems to be too powerful and the fight is unending. Followers of the Barong appear and help him fight the Rangda.
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