A Respectable Wedding

A Respectable Wedding is a short play by the German dramatist Bertolt Brecht. The German title Die Kleinbürgerhochzeit literally means the petit bourgeois wedding.

Like other 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.^[1]

The play includes nine characters:

• The Bride's Father
• The Bridegroom's Mother
• The Bride
• The Bride's Sister
• The Bridegroom
• His Friend
• The Wife
• Her Husband
• The Young Man

References

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Bertolt Brecht

Dramatic
works

• Baal
• Drums in the Night
• A Wedding
• Driving Out a Devil
• Lux in Tenebris
• Mysteries of a Barbershop
• In the Jungle of Cities
• Edward II
• Man Equals Man
• Downfall of the Egotist Johann Fatzer
• The Elephant Calf
• Little Mahagonny
• The Threepenny Opera
• The Flight Across the Ocean
• The Baden-Baden Lesson on Consent
• Happy End
• Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
• Der Jasager / Der Neinsager
• The Decision
• Saint Joan of the Stockyards
• The Exception and the Rule
• The Mother
• Kuhle Wampe
• The Seven Deadly Sins
• Round Heads and Pointed Heads
• The Horatians and the Curiatians
• Fear and Misery of the Third Reich
• Señora Carrar's Rifles
• Life of Galileo
• How Much Is Your Iron?
• Dansen
• Mother Courage and Her Children
• The Trial of Lucullus
• Mr Puntila and His Man Matti
• The Good Person of Szechwan
• The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
• Hangmen Also Die!
• The Visions of Simone Machard
• The Duchess of Malfi
• Schweyk in the Second World War
• The Caucasian Chalk Circle
• Antigone
• The Days of the Commune
• The Tutor
• Die Verurteilung des Lukullus
• Report from Herrnburg
• Coriolanus
• The Trial of Joan of Arc at Rouen, 1431
• Turandot
• Don Juan
• Trumpets and Drums

Poems, songs

• "Reminiscence of Marie A."
• "Alabama Song"
• "Pirate Jenny"
• "What Keeps Mankind Alive?"
• "Solidaritätslied"
• "Einheitsfrontlied"
• "Kinderhymne"
• "Die Lösung"

Theories and
techniques

• Epic theatre
• Lehrstücke
• Non-Aristotelian drama

• Complex seeing
• Defamiliarization
• Demonstration
• Fabel
• Gestus
• Historicization
• Interruptions
• Not / But
• Refunctioning
• Separation of the elements

• Messingkauf Dialogues
• The Modern Theatre Is the Epic Theatre
• A Short Organum for the Theatre
• Street scene

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