Die Kleinbürgerhochzeit
Die Kleinbürgerhochzeit ("the petit bourgeois wedding") is a German one-act play by Bertold Brecht (1898-1956)[1]
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The original text
Written in 1919, when the author was 21 years old. A Respectable Wedding was the only one of Brecht’s five early one acts to be staged during his lifetime, being performed in Frankfurt in 1926.
Translations and adaptations
Translated into English as A Respectable Wedding or simply The Wedding.
Performance history in South Africa
1999: Presented at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown as The Wedding by the Centre for Experimental Theatre Brno - Czech republic (Theatre Goose on a String).
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Respectable_Wedding
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertolt_Brecht
http://www.dramaonlinelibrary.com/plays/a-respectable-wedding-iid-128683
National Arts Festival programme, 1999.
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