Lakhon nok is actually an ancestor of the likay another popular type of traditional thai dance that is a partly improvised often ribald folk pay most populay by troupes of traveling actors who deliver a gaudy combination of classical and folk music flamboyant costumes slapstick comedy doubel entendres and melodrma perhps the most interesting aspect is the willing for likay to delve into matters of contemporay politic never far from the minds of most thais