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



VOICES



How could he know?



Who told him?



Make the kid answer.



Etc.



CONTINUED



70. CONTINUED 70.



The crowd starts to converge around the mother who grabs the child and starts to run with him. The crowd starts to follow, at first walking fast, and then running after him.



Based on the stage directions, what is occurring in this scene?