Note: no photos are available for this production.
“DIE KÜRVE” (The Curve) and DIE KLEINBŪRGER HOCHZEIT” (The Wedding Feast)
[One-Acts/German Language] D: Otto Tausig; S: Hahnsheinrich Palitzch; P: Goethe
Institute of Munich and Gert von Gontard; T: Barbizon-Plaza Theatre (OB);
11/24/70-12/2/70 (10) “Die Kūrve” A: Tankred Dorst; “Die Kleinbūrger
Hochzeit” A: Bertolt Brecht
This pair of modern one-acts, neither of which had ever been
done in New York before, was played in repertory with Kleist’s Amphitryon (covered earlier in this
series) by the visiting Munich troupe, Die Brūcke (The Bridge). Tankred
Dorst’s short play is about two brothers who make money by selling car wrecks
from a dangerous mountain curve that, to no avail, they persist in reporting to
the authorities. John Simon observed that it “was done competently but without
distinction.
The other piece, a vastly entertaining 1919 Brecht farce
about a Bavarian bourgeois marriage party, with its swollen-bellied bride and
crumbling, hand-made furniture, was better liked. Simon said, “The cast rose
skillfully to the play’s admittedly modest histrionic demands and the furniture
collapsed with consummate style.”
