Read the excerpt from Act 2 of The Monsters Are Due on

Maple Street

Which best describes the effect of the stage directions in

this excerpt?

75. SERIES OF CLOSE SHOTS - PEOPLE 75.

MAN ONE

The stage directions demonstrate the fear of the people

in the crowd who realize that aliens caused the outage.

The stage directions highlight the fact that the crowd has

realized exactly who is to blame for the outage.

The stage directions emphasize the crowd mentality and

the idea that everyone is making strong accusations

The stage directions illustrate that several singular

people are making accusations, but the group intensity is

dying down

(shouting)

It isn't the kid

it's Bob Weaver's house.

WOMAN ONE