A Respectable Wedding

A Respectable Wedding is a short play by the German dramatist Bertolt Brecht, written in 1919 and first performed on 11 December 1926 at the Schauspielhaus Frankfurt under its original title Die Hochzeit (The Wedding).[1] Brecht changed the title a short time later to Die Kleinbürgerhochzeit (The Petit Bourgeois Wedding).[2]

Like others of Brecht's early works (Baal, Drums in the Night, and The Threepenny Opera), A Respectable Wedding is seen as a critique of bourgeois society.[3]

The play includes nine characters:[4]

  • The Bridegroom's Mother
  • The Bride's Father
  • The Bride
  • The Bridegroom
  • The Young Man
  • The Bride's Sister
  • The Woman
  • The Man
  • The Friend

References

  1. ^ "Uraufführung des Brecht-Stückes Die Kleinbürgerhochzeit in Frankfurt, 11. Dezember 1926", Zeitgeschichte in Hessen (in German)
  2. ^ "Die Kleinbürgerhochzeit von Bertolt Brecht", 24 January 2023, Bühne Magazin (in German)
  3. ^ Squiers, Anthony (2014). An Introduction to the Social and Political Philosophy of Bertolt Brecht: Revolution and Aesthetics. Amsterdam: Rodopi. p. 33. ISBN 9789042038998.
  4. ^ "Die Kleinbürgerhochzeit", background, plot, cast; TheaterLaien e. V., Borbeck-Mitte (in German)
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