The phrase "a first scene" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to the initial scene in a narrative, play, film, or any other storytelling medium.
Example: "In a first scene, we are introduced to the main character and their struggles."
Alternatives: "an opening scene" or "the initial scene".
France's choice of a first scene for "Our Fathers" is masterly.
A first scene shows an old provincial theater where Cohan's father, played by Walter Huston, has just finished an afternoon performance.
And it was only after shooting a first scene, in which I attempt to cast the role of church leader David Miscavige – with the help of one of Scientology's most prominent defectors, Marty Rathbun – that I realised how it could work.
"Remind me to tell you about the opening sequence," Mr. Levy whispered, over a first scene in which all the familiars from "Night at the Museum" — Sacajawea, Jedediah, Octavius, Attila the Hun — are packed into crates for shipment from their home at the American Museum of Natural History in New York to what is supposed to be very cold storage at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington.
A third scene was cut because a screen in the background contained classified information.
And so to a third scene of the world in crisis, Warsaw.
But take a third scene from that great age of social mobility: David Hockney's Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy.
A second scene features a scary man in a wet, black raincoat who appears in the mirror of a medicine cabinet after it is closed.
"To carry that rage to a second scene, to a second location, really speaks to the amount of danger we're dealing with".
When that production closed, Mr. Kushner decided to return to his original idea, which was to follow the monologue with a second scene that takes place in Kabul, a scene that had opened the second act.
For the event, he added a second scene, in which the First Lady, an admirer of Dostoyevsky's writing, comes onstage to debate the play's literary merits with the playwright himself.
