... the three surrounding him. The audience can no longer have the illusion of being the unseen spectator at an event which is really taking place" (Willett 91). The use of direct audience-address is one way of disrupting stage illusion and generating the distancing effect. In performance, as the performer "observes himself", his objective is "to appear strange and even surprising ... , but also regarded. However, dramatic theatre assumes the opposite as the audience wants to be passive spectators, which must be reached only through emotions. Although a transgressive theatre centred on more ...

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