Visit to a Small Planet Study Guide

Set in Maryland, in the home of the Spelding family, the play takes place in the near future. The scene opens in the living room where Roger Spelding delivers a TV broadcast, while his wife sits knitting and their daughter, Ellen, listens to her father. Roger delivers a news report reassuring the public that the object reported in the sky was a meteor rather than a space ship or new high-tech weapon. At the close of his broadcast, he poses with his wife and daughter. (read more)