Could some one please explain why D is the correct answer choice ?
Theater Critic: The play La Finestrina, now at Central Theater, was written in Italy in the eighteenth century. The
director claims that this production is as similar to the original production as is possible in a modern theater.
Although the actor who plays Harlequin the clown gives a performance very reminiscent of the twentieth-century
American comedian Groucho Marx, Marx’s comic style was very much within the comic acting tradition that had
begun in sixteenth-century Italy.
The considerations given best serve as part of an argument that
(A) modern audiences would find it hard to tolerate certain characteristics of a historically accurate
performance of an eighteenth-century play
(8) Groucho Marx once performed the part of the character Harlequin in La Finestrina
(C) in the United States the training of actors in the twentieth century is based on principles that do not differ
radically from those that underlay the training of actors in eighteenth-century Italy
(D) the performance of the actor who plays Harlequin in La Finestrina does not serve as evidence against the
director’s claim
(E) the director of La Finestrina must have advised the actor who plays Harlequin to model his performance on
comic performances of Groucho Marx
Actor who plays Harlequin is SIMILAR TO 20th century actor Groucho Marx in style. Hence, some people might raise an objection to the director’s argument that the play is as similar to the original production (in 18th century Italy) as is possible in a modern theater.
the critic addresses such an objection by stating that Marx’s acting style was very much in the same tradition as that of 16th century Italy.
What conclusion then can you draw from these facts? that the current version played of La Finestrina is similar to the original production.
