A Respectable Wedding
A Respectable Wedding is a short play by the German dramatist Bertolt Brecht, written in 1919 and first performed on 11 December 1926 at the Schauspielhaus Frankfurt under its original title Die Hochzeit. Brecht changed the title a short time later to Die Kleinbürgerhochzeit.
Like others of Brecht's early works, A Respectable Wedding is seen as a critique of bourgeois society.
The play includes nine characters:
- The Bridegroom's Mother
- The Bride's Father
- The Bride
- The Bridegroom
- The Young Man
- The Bride's Sister
- The Woman
- The Man
- The Friend