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27-30 September 1989, Free Theatre, The Arts Centre
A Respectable Wedding by Bertold Brecht is the class production of the drama students at Canterbury University.
When the young Brecht wrote this early farcical satire on bourgeois marriage he still had the Marx brothers rather than Karl Marx on his mind. A very lower middle class family tries to behave as one ought at a wedding reception, but falls rather short of the requirements of bourgeois etiquette with embarrassing and hilarious consequences and a lustful collapse of manners, set and play. It all translates well into Kiwi-land with a do-it-yourself handyman husband, pavlova and cream for afters and the wedding stage directions of New Zealand's own Southern Bride magazine. The production is produced in association with the Free Theatre and is directed by Peter Falkenberg. You are invited to partake in the wedding celebrations that have already begun... ReviewThe linch pin (of the wedding and the production) was Robin Bond. Brilliant comedic timing (and copious quantities of wine) held this father-of-the-bride together. If anything his performance was almost too big, threatening to dwarf the other participants. But then that is often what Kiwi fathers do. 
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