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unable to stand the test of time and the social changes in the world beyond. Wada, which means an ancient ancestral
country house, is the focal point of this play. The play reveals the skeletons of a culture, stuck in time. The Wada insularity
is a product of the large joint-family with its hierarchic patriarchy that holds the tensions in check under a facile pretence
of authority. The crises brought forth in this intense play are more than mere family crises - they are crises of a more
serious nature. The crisis at the center of the play is one of traditional culture against commercial or consumer culture.
As playwright Elkunchwar says, "Wada is not a simple family drama, it is more than that, a document of social and
political changes
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