Question

This theatre attempted to distance the audience by repudiating realistic conventions through a didactic performance style, an acting style that required the actor to "demonstrate" rather than "integrate with" his character, and a stage that called attention to its own artificiality.

A. Brecht's theatre of alienation
B. Artaud's theatre of cruelty
C. Pirandello's metatheatre
D. Beckett's realism

Answer 1

Answer:

A. Brecht's theatre of alienation

Explanation:

Brecht's theatre of alienation was Brecht"s using theatre techniques in order to provoke the audience response making the object of "alienation effect" to be both the audience in the drama and the film by attempting to distance the audience by repudiating realistic conventions through a didactic performance style, an acting style that required the actor to "demonstrate" rather than "integrate with" his character, and a stage that called attention to its own artificiality.