What is one advantage of listening to an audio recording as opposed to silently reading a play? it gives listeners a better idea of each character’s appearance. it aids listeners in deciding how the lighting affects the characters’ expressions. it allows listeners to better understand each character’s stage directions. it listeners interpret the characters’ emotions and motivations.

"It helps listeners interpret the characters’ emotions and motivations."

By listening to an audio recording, listeners can understand the characters' emotions and motivations better as most of the times the audio record includes some level of interpretation already, that allows the listener to pay more attention to such details. By reading a whole play in silence, it is harder to separate the different characters as they are being presented in the play, their emotion and motivations, than by listening to an audio recording.

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