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A one-act comic satire set in a cluttered apartment follows a stage actor who gives elocution lessons to parliamentarians while his wife manages household and auction shopping. Visitors include educators and politicians whose rehearsed rhetoric and party loyalties are gently mocked, and the auction of a disgraced official's belongings highlights social vanity and the commodification of public life. Through brisk domestic scenes, stagecraft metaphors, and ironic exchanges, the piece exposes how performance and opportunism often replace sincere political conviction.
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