A Respectable Wedding

A Respectable Wedding

by Bertolt Brecht

Directed by: Alexandru Dabija

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Synopsis

Brecht wrote "A Respectable Wedding" (the German original title literally means "The Petit Bourgeois Wedding") in 1919 at the age of only 21 years. In a comical way the play shows the abyss of petit bourgeois babbittry: the bridal couple, the bride's father and sister, the groom's mother and some friends meet at a wedding party. This party turns more and more into a disaster. The guests behave inappropriately, interrupting each other, treating each other with hostility or making vulgar allusions. As if this was not enough, the groom's pride and joy, all of his home-made furniture, literally breaks down. …

Brecht wrote "A Respectable Wedding" (the German original title literally means "The Petit Bourgeois Wedding") in 1919 at the age of only 21 years. In a comical way the play shows the abyss of petit bourgeois babbittry: the bridal couple, the bride's father and sister, the groom's mother and some friends meet at a wedding party. This party turns more and more into a disaster. The guests behave inappropriately, interrupting each other, treating each other with hostility or making vulgar allusions. As if this was not enough, the groom's pride and joy, all of his home-made furniture, literally breaks down. In the end, they say: "Thank God and the Devil, that they finally left!"

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Rareş Hontzu

The Bride's Father

Dana Borteanu

The Groom's Mother

Silvia Török

The Bride

Olga Török

Her Sister

Franz Kattesch

The Groom

Georg Peetz

His Friend

Ioana Iacob

The Woman

Radu Vulpe

Her Husband

Konstantin Keidel

The Young Man

Patrick Cionac

With the participation of

Technical direction

Adrian Muntean

Light Design

Botond Nosz

Assistant scenographer

Ioana Popescu

Assistant director

Daniela Török

Set and costumes

Dragoș Buhagiar

Stage speech

Luise Gebauer

Stage direction

Alexandru Dabija

Dramaturgy

Valerie Seufert

Choreographer

Florin Fieroiu

Reviews

"A Respectable Wedding is a funny show. Young Brecht's script turns towards the grotesque, a register imposed on stage by the acting style, make-up and the dismantling of the elements from the mobile décor (chairs, tables, chaiselongue), as signs of the structural vices of the community. The acting is unreproachful, all of them, regardless of generation, act very well in composition roles; they are in an excellent physical and musical shape. They all wear heavy make-up, their faces are painted with some clay that cracks off; their make-up is a symbolic indicator of decrepitude. A Respectable Wedding is a …

Oltița Cîntec in: Suplimentul de cultură

"The picture is painted in the strong colours of the German Expressionism age (Otto Dix is the best reference), the characters are defined by the actors' thick, travesty make-up, the grotesque pictures, in such a manner that the sequent comic makes reference to the black area of sarcasm. The show has style, it is rigorously drawn, and the natural wood in Dragoş Buhagiar's décor has a deceiving appearance of novelty."

Doina Papp in: Luceafărul de dimineață

"The show, staged by Alexandru Dabija at the German State Theatre Timişoara, is a good one, an agreeable one, one of rich comic, a comic that reminds us of the pure form it had in silent films. Its brechtianism or antibrechtianism doesn't give you head-aches. […] It has a good rhythm, is fluent, with a sharp comic that is sometimes a little indecent and somehow obscene. The performance of the German State Theatre Timişoara is one in a series of Alexandru Dabija's shows in which his directorial work gives priority to the actors. He succeeded."

Mircea Morariu in: Adevărul

"A Respectable Wedding is a funny show. Young Brecht's script turns towards the grotesque, a register imposed on stage by the acting style, make-up and the dismantling of the elements from the mobile décor (chairs, tables, chaiselongue), as signs of the structural vices of the community. The acting is unreproachful, all of them, regardless of generation, act very well in composition roles; they are in an excellent physical and musical shape. They all wear heavy make-up, their faces are painted with some clay that cracks off; their make-up is a symbolic indicator of decrepitude. A Respectable Wedding is a show of European level which makes you not identify with the characters but to estrange yourself from them, in order to better understand and know them. At the German State Theatre in Timişoara, Dabija co created a show of the purest Brechtian essence."

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