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)."Uraufführung des Brecht-Stückes Die Kleinbürgerhochzeit in Frankfurt, 11. Dezember 1926", Zeitgeschichte in Hessen (in German) Brecht changed the title a short time later to Die Kleinbürgerhochzeit (The Petit Bourgeois Wedding)."Die Kleinbürgerhochzeit von Bertolt Brecht", 24 January 2023, Bühne Magazin (in German)
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.
The play includes nine characters:"Die Kleinbürgerhochzeit", background, plot, cast; TheaterLaien e. V., Borbeck-Mitte (in German) 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
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