"You'll manage rehearsals, actors, technicians, props and costume fittings, and liaise with front-of-house staff and the director. You'll need to have a good understanding of both the technical and artistic elements of a performance so you can ensure it is delivered exactly to the director's requirements."
So basically, a stage manager is like the manager of everything, it's an important job. You'll have to make sure everything is in order and that everything is how it's supposed to be, like the clothing, the place where people will be acting, etc.
For the Stage Manager in Our Town, I wouldn't know as I haven't read the bok.
Answer: a stage manager is like the manager of everything, it's an important job. You'll have to make sure everything is in order and that everything is how it's supposed to be, like the clothing, the place where people will be acting, etc. but the manager in this story is taking others on an adventure and is in the story not off to the side helping others, he puts himself into the acts.
It’s Persuasion because he’s trying to tell us America or Americans need to do better because we’re slipping and other countries are getting ahead and he doesn’t want that, we need to do better as a country is telling us to come together and be better, persuasion