A Respectable Wedding (Benedetti)

A Respectable Wedding (Benedetti)

A Respectable Wedding (Benedetti)

Jean Benedetti, Bertolt Brecht

A Respectable Wedding (Benedetti)

A Respectable Wedding (Benedetti)

Jean Benedetti, Bertolt Brecht

Overview

A provocative short play about the life of the petit bourgeois society. A Respectable Wedding is a grotesque story and a farce, where everything is pilled, broken and destroyed: relationships, furniture and the characters. However, this decline comes in the middle of a wedding dinner. A serious celebration, gradually changes into an evening full of accidents, provocations, gossip, shameful and lively entertainment. In this way the decadent moral of the respectable society with good manners is revealed.

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Cautions

  • Caution Mild Adult Mild Adult Themes

Details

  • Time Period: 1920s
  • Target Audience: Adult

Authors

Author

Jean Benedetti

Bertolt Brecht

Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956), playwright, poet and director, was born in Augsburg, Germany in February 1898. He established himself as a playwright during the 1920s and early 1930s with plays such as Baal, Man is Man, The Threepenny Opera and The Mother. In 1933, as Hitler came ...
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