The Wedding

Wedding, The (Wesele)

    Author: Stanisław Wyspiański

    First Performance: 1901, Cracow

    Published: 1901

    First English Translation: 1904

    Genre: Drama in 3 acts; Polish verse, 4-stress rhymed lines

    Setting: Living room of farmhouse near Cracow, Poland, 1900

    Cast: 23m, 12f

A noisy wedding celebration takes place in the neighbouring hall, as characters come and go in the living room where the buffet has been set out. We meet the Groom, a writer from Cracow, and Jadwiga, his pretty, simple peasant Bride. They have married in the home of the Groom's brother, a painter, who after also marrying a peasant girl is now a prosperous farmer. Politics are discussed, flirtations take place, and the Priest instructs the young couple. Intellectuals and peasants are united in their desire to return to...

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