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Despite what these street plays to stand for the real art and the political meaning of this form of protest is being forgotten and street theatre has now taken an ugly form of bulky percussion, hollow dialogues and jingles that are almost too melodic to be theatre. The play talks about patriarchy and how we as individuals are ignorantly both the preachers and sufferers of patriarchy simultaneously. The play further clarifies the misunderstood idea of sex and gender which has been prevailing in our society since forever. It showcases what does patriarchy - the societal model we're under today do to men and women that creates such a clear gender gap and how the creation and binary division of certain gender norms and pre-defined roles have such a jarring outcome on both men and women, which
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