The location of a theatrical space in a way indicates its relevance and its ideology or politics.

Maya Krishna Raos The Walk performed at People watch over parliament' in Jantar Mantar
touches this idea as it has now become a place for protest demonstrations. The performance is
an agitprop and a reaction to the horrific gang rape in a Delhi bus on 16 December, 2012. As
the performance reveals itself she stands not as a person but as a voice, a consolidated voice
of resistance. The spectators become active participants during the performance and make
this voice stronger.

In this performance she also proves how her solo performance is independent of the stage or
set design. The background of the stage constists posters written and painted and they are
relevant to the programme. The only prop that she is uses is a microphone and that too to
amplify her voice, to reach out to all the audience. The structure or design of the microphone
is not significant. It is majorly verbal with minimal body movements. Speech carries the main
idea to the spectator and body movements are just an addition to that. Her body movements
clearly reveal the influence of Kathakali and this makes her performance poetic.
Natyadharmi seems to be apt to describe her performance and she her decision to go with this
form of representation rather than Lokdharmi creates an impact. The consolidated voice that
is brought out through the Walk couldnt be expressed through a form which is realistic and
un-stylised, involving very natural expression and movement, as occurs in daily life.

Music plays in the background as she performs. The performance becomes mode of
interaction at times. She plays with numbers describing a time of the day or the number of
rape cases filed in Delhi. What looks like statistics becomes a mirror reflecting the system we
live in as she points out that among 635 cases of rape that were lodged only one was
convicted. Her performance is hybrid as she brings in elements of rap and at times the
performance looks like poetry moving on stage. Both Hindi and English are used in the
speech to reach out to more number of people. This use of two languages tries to break the
language barrier and moreover make people relate to the idea she is trying to speak of as
language is an identity.

The methods she uses and styles she depict are coherent to the content of the play. The
performance brings out anger, the anger that has been culminating since the beginning, the
anger against gender violence and other forms of oppression based on gender. She uses voice
from abdomen and the pitch is low. This depicts anger and even her body movement makes it
more stronger. She refuses to be feminine figure with low voice and gentle footsteps as
propagated by this patriarchal society. She breaks this stereotype and represent the peoples
oppressed voices. The use of a voice along with the music sets the mood as it brings into a
kind of melancholy but she against breaks this with her voice depicting that its no more the
time to be sad or depressed but to channelize anger and bring forward changes for a gender
sensitized society.