Guest performance of Drama SNT Maribor
German playwright Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) was a very prolific writer in the field of theatre theory and practice. In A Respectable Wedding (1919) Brecht ruthlessly ridiculed the apparent perfection, false morality, sentimentality and commonness of the petite bourgeoisie. The world of illusionary happiness of the petite bourgeoisie, which reaches its peak with a wedding, collapses in front of the audience as quickly as the groom's handmade furniture, which breaks even before the wedding reception finishes.
The happiest day of the wedding couple turns into hell: "Tomorrow everyone will know what it was like and everybody will laugh. In church they will be looking at us while thinking of the furniture and the lamp that wasn't lit and what's worse, that the bride is pregnant. And I was going to say that it was premature birth." A Respectable Wedding features witty and relaxed dialogues, word plays, allegorical turns and absurd humour.