Question

20 points!!! Identify the stage directions in this excerpt from Susan Glaspell's Trifles.
MRS HALE: I'd hate to have men coming into my kitchen, snooping around and criticising.

(She arranges the pans under sink which the LAWYER had shoved out of place.)

MRS PETERS: Of course it's no more than their duty.

MRS HALE: Duty's all right, but I guess that deputy sheriff that came out to make the fire might have got a little of this on. (gives the roller towel a pull) Wish I'd thought of that sooner. Seems mean to talk about her for not having things slicked up when she had to come away in such a hurry.

Answer 1

Answer:

(She arranges the pans under the sink which the LAWYER had shoved out of place)

and

(gives the roller brush a pull)

these are obvious stage directions.

Answer 2

The stage directions in this excerpt from Susan Glaspell's Trifles are, (She arranges the pans under the sink which the LAWYER had shoved out of place.) and  (gives the roller towel a pull).

• A play is a work of drama, usually consisting mostly of dialogue between characters and intended for theatrical performance rather than just reading.
• Trifles is a one-act play by Susan Glaspell. It was first performed by the Provincetown Players at the Wharf Theatre in Provincetown, Massachusetts, on August 8, 1916.
• Stage directions here are the obvious actions being done by the characters which have been mentioned separately.
• These are to be acted out by the actors during the screening of the play.
• Here, Mrs. Hale arranging the pans under the sink is a stage direction.
• Mrs. Hale pulling the roller towel a pull is another example of a stage direction.
• Hence the stage directions in this excerpt from Susan Glaspell's Trifles are, (She arranges the pans under the sink which the LAWYER had shoved out of place.) and  (gives the roller towel a pull).

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