The protagonist of a play set in this country haggles with a carpenter and his wife before a policeman catches their son with stolen baked goods. The “self-observation” of a scene where a fisherman’s wife paddles a boat is mentioned in an essay about this country’s traditions that took its key idea from Viktor Shklovsky. In a play set in this country, a suicidal pilot impregnates the protagonist, who had earlier received a thousand silver dollars for being the only one to grant three travelers a place to stay. The absence of the fourth wall in this country’s theater allows the audience to distance themselves from the actors, according to an essay that coined the term “alienation effect.” In a play set in this country, a sex worker impersonates her male cousin to save her tobacco shop. For 10 points, the play that inspired The Caucasian Chalk Circle was from what setting of Bertolt Brecht’s The Good Woman of Szechuan? ■END■
ANSWER: China [or Zhōngguó; or People’s Republic of China or PRC; or Zhōnghuá Rénmín Gònghéguó]
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