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A three-act drama stages the decline of an erstwhile landowner whose ruined pride and harsh temper generate conflicts with his children and household. Domestic quarrels, hymn-singing and sarcastic bravado expose debts, hidden sacrifices and strained loyalties as younger figures seek escape or reconciliation. Action shifts through claustrophobic domestic spaces, mixing coarse humour, religious fervour and bitter accusation to reveal how past choices and social pretence corrode family bonds. The piece probes reputation, authority, self-deception and the personal cost of moral and material collapse through concentrated scenes and symbolic details of a shrinking household.
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