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By Richard Tijerina
Reviewer
Three one-act comedies were pre-
I ented over the weekend during the
ighth annual Spring Affair spon-
ored by the Texas A&M German
^lub. And though the productions
iere clearly not of Aggie Players cal-
pre, what the shows lacked in pro
fessionalism made up for in warmth.
The shows, “Die kleinen Ver-
ivandten (The Little Relatives),” “Die
ileinburgerhochzeit (The Wed-
ling)” and “Die grosse Wut des Phil-
pp Hotz (The Great Rage of Philipp
dotz),” featured mostly A&M stu-
lents in the casts. All of the shows
vere presented in German.
And although an English synopsis
vas provided for each performance,
letailing the play’s plot and scenes
af action, following the actors’ Ger-
nan lines were next to impossible
(or audience members who knew no
Serman.
Fortunately for the shows, most of
he audience understood the lan
guage.
“Die kleinen Verwandten,” fea-
ured on Thursday and Saturday
lights, centered around Heinrich
and Mama, the parents of the
dassler family trying to make a fa
vorable impression upon the visiting
Max Schmidt, a wealthy merchant
who is courting their daughter, Ida.
Expecting Schmidt to arrive at
any moment, the Hasslers are both
shocked and appalled when Hein
rich’s sister Babette, played by Heike
Garrett, shows at the doorstep with
her new husband Josef, played by
Edwin Garrett. Babette is angry at
the couple for not attending her
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ing a man of a lower social class.
Loaded with visual humor, the
scenes following Schmidt’s arrival
were priceless. Babette takes off her
shoes and shakes all the leaves out
onto the Hasslers’ well-swept floor.
Josef sneezes into Mama Hassler’s
spool of knitting. Babette sneezes
into a tissue that she unpacks from
the bosom of her dress, then stuffs it
back in.
The chances of Schmidt propos
ing do not look good until Ida enters
the room. As Schmidt takes Ida into
the kitchen to talk, the Hassler par
ents unload their anger (the synopsis
described how Mama “vents her
spleen” at Babette) on the young
couple. The day is saved when
Schmidt and Ida come back from
the kitchen engaged.
“Die Kleinburgerhochzeit” re
volves around the family and f riends
of a newly married couple and their
nuptial dinner after the ceremony.
The atmosphere quickly turns sour
when the father of the bride re
counts horrible tales during the meal
about the codfish they are all eating
and the story behind the bride’s Un
cle’s death.
As if things weren’t bad enough,
the bride’s friend starts making in
sulting comments about various
pieces of furniture in the room, and
by the time everything is over and all
the dust has cleared, the dining
room table, chaiselongue, wardrobe
and a few chairs are all broken.
To lighten things up, the groom
asks the bride’s friend to dance.
wedding, which the Hasslers did not which proceeds to make everyone
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jealous of each other. By the end of
the play, everyone is mad at each
other. After all of the guests have
left, the bride and groom are finally
alone. Their anger at each other
having been subsided, they finally
retire to their bedroom for their
marriage night festivities. Unfortu
nately for them, the bed breaks too.
Friday and Sunday night’s perfor
mance of “Die grosse Wut des Phil
ipp Hotz” was clearly neither as
funny or good as the other two. It
revolved around Philipp’s breaking
marriage as a direct result of both
his and his wife’s infidelities with
each other’s best friends. Warning
his wife Dorli that he is going to run
away and join the Foreign Legion,
Philipp drones on and on in a wave
of much too long soliloquies lament
ing his fragmented relationship with
his wife and his strong desires to not
enlist in the Legion.
After Dorli Doesn’t beg him to
stay with her, Philipp leaves to join
the Legion and calls her from a train
station. And although she tries, she
fails in stopping his enlistment in
time, Philipp returns at the end of
the play.
The plays were obviously not
meant to come off as well-polished
productions, and this contributed to
their overall effectiveness. Lines
were forgotten and flubbed, props
were unintentionally broken and the
characters often broke character to
smile or laugh a little with the audi
ence. But this just made viewing the
show that much better because it let
the audience member relate to the
cast.
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