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What is the purpose of stage directions?

a. to provide comic relief after various pivotal and tense moments in a play and lighten the mood of the audience
b. to set up the backdrop of a play by providing background to break a play down into multiple scenes according to changes in locations to describe details about where a scene takes place and how an actor must deliver his or her lines

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"b" A play director generally gives stage directions to describe details about where a scene takes place and how the actor must deliver his lines
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