Antonin Artaud advocated a "theatre of cruelty" wherein "cruelty" refers to:
A) The audience being forced to confront itself in order to purge the unconscious mind of destructive impulses
B) The audience being forced to witness cruel events which Artaud believed modern bourgeois comedy ignored
C) The audience being forced to become more politically aware of the negative repercussions of WWII
D) The audience being forced to actively participate in plays about Man's inhumanity towards other human beings
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