Riviera

A two-act stage comedy set overnight in a grand department-store display follows a sales clerk who spends long nights dressing wax mannequins and nursing bitterness toward a newly wealthy entrepreneur whose presence in the shop humiliates him. Night-shift colleagues, a loyal young woman, and patrolling firemen animate scenes that contrast the invisible labor of retail work with the public spectacle of social ascent. Through ironic situations and late-night encounters the play examines social ambition, the disparity between appearance and reality, class tensions, and the theatrical nature of consumer culture.