Question

The immediacy and concreteness of drama and the fact that it forces the spectator to interpret what is happening in front of him on a multitude of levels, compelling him to decide whether the tone of voice of the character was friendly or menacing or sarcastic, means that drama has all the qualities of the real world, the real situations we meet in life - but with one very decisive difference: in life the situations we are confronted with are real; in the theatre - or in the other forms of drama (radio, TV, the cinema) - they are merely acted, they are make-believe, play. (ESSLIN, 1976, p. 19; author's stress)

Source: ESSLIN, Martin. An Anatomy of Drama. New York: Hill and Wang, 1996.

According to the text above, the drama is ¿


... a copycat of reality exactly as it is experienced in our everyday life conflicts and situations.


...a play between text and actors unattached to the reality of life situations surrounding it.


...a play between audience and dramatic production aiming at a simulacrum of the situations we meet in life.


...an absolute denial of reality as such towards a surrealist framework of entertainment.


...highly depending on the realness of the characters in scene for it to work properly.

Answer 1

...a play between audience and dramatic production aiming at a simulacrum of the situations we meet in life.