The Garden Party (Czech: Zahradní slavnost) is a 1963 play by Václav Havel.
The protagonist is Hugo Pludek, an average person from a middle-class Czech family.
Kalabis cannot show up because he is going to a garden party held by the Liquidation Office, so Hugo's parents send him there.
All of the functionaries of the Liquidation Office speak in a degenerate, ideological, content-free language, as is expected for their role in the bureaucratic system.
He learns to speak platitudinally, using clichés that do not mean anything real, and finally becomes the head of the newly created Central Inauguration and Liquidation Committee.