In 1979, this play was, without question, the most popular piece in the “Ilkhom” repertoire. The performance, staged in the form of a “vintage family portrait” appeared to be universal, and is held dear to the spectators of more than one generation of Tashkent audiences who have come to the “Ilkhom”
Theater.
“A Respectable Wedding” is equally interesting for young and old viewers, as it satisfies the curiosity of the prior, and awakens nostalgic memories of the latter. According to N. Kazmina (“The Theater” magazine) the very ingenious stage design of the play turns it into “a box with a rapidly unwinding spring.” Any spectator who has a sense of humor and self-irony will surely recognize him/herself in the characters “invited” by the director and playwright to “A Respectable Wedding.” In April 1979 it was almost impossible to predict that “A Respectable Wedding” by Brecht, would stay in the Ilkhom’s repertoire for so many years.
Today the performance will be watched by the now adult children of our first generation spectators.
There have been many articles written about the play. The most sad and scandalous one was presented by one Y. Galkin, in the newspaper “Komsomolskaya Pravda” (April 1980) in a manner pretending to unmask the ideologically harmful theater.
Later, a well-known Moscow critic A. Svobodin in one of his articles, had identified “A Respectable Wedding” as a milestone in the history of theater. Previously, in its history, this performance met wide acclaim in; Moscow, Leningrad, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Norway, Yugoslavia, Germany, and was greatly
loved by millions of television viewers of the former Soviet Central Television. So, “A Respectable Wedding” has lived a rather strange, but very happy life.

The first performance took place in April 1979.
The legendary play will return on September 10, 2015