What is the Stage Manager’s purpose in the first act of the play in Our Town?

Explanation:

The Stage Manager's first and most obvious function is to provide exposition of background facts. Traditional exposition occurs when characters reveal facts about place, setting, and plot involvement. Wilder, in defiance of classic method, has the Stage Manager introduce the town and characters.

- "chilles is sad and angry because hector, the trojan leader, killed his best friend patroclus. he seems angry with himself because he didn't or protect patroclus against the trojans."

since he could see color, and nobody else could, he didn't find it fair that everyone else in the utopia couldn't see color but him and the giver : d