How Effective do you Think Brecht’s Techniques of Alienation have been in the Play so far?

Bertolt Brecht wrote the play ‘The Caucasian Chalk Circle’ in 1944. He used the Verfremdung Effekt (literally ‘to make strange’) to distance the audience from the characters so that they would leave the theatre feeling obligated to solve or right the political/social problems put forth during the performance. In the first four scenes I think that the Verfremdung Effekt was successful in alienating the audience from the characters

In scene 3-‘The Flight to the Northern Mountains’, about half way through there are two ironshirts and a Corporal searching for baby Michael. Whilst they are travelling the Corporal shouts at them “you don‘t like marching. But that won’t help you. It’ll go against you. Sing!” Singing is not a usual pastime for soldiers and does not reflect real life, Brecht uses it here purposely to remi...