The phrase "a scene at a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a specific moment or event occurring in a particular location, often in storytelling or descriptive writing.
Example: "The novel opens with a scene at a bustling marketplace, filled with vibrant colors and lively chatter."
Alternatives: "a moment in a" or "an event at a".
A housekeeper delivers a bawdy monologue from Céline; a scene at a small airfield goes, in a pan shot, from horizontal to vertical; a scene at a swimming pool appears onscreen as negative (blacks and whites inverted).
Let's say it was a scene at a dinner table, and I faded in and the people were talking.
"Let's do the lines, shall we?" For an hour, they spoke and whispered and shouted lines from a scene at a motel called Cupid's Cabin.
The first, set in the Chrysler, is as dark as its walnut interior, including a scene at a racecourse where all the horses turn out to be zombies.
A scene at a meeting of a farmers' syndicate suggests the extreme transformations — social, political, economic — that industrial farming imposes on farmers.
Jeffrey's alienation from his peers is suggested by a scene at a party where he sits stone-faced, alone and ignored while couples dance and socialize.
(In the magazine, Ian Parker recently described a scene at an American resettlement N.G.O).
James Patterson's "Four Blind Mice" has a scene at an airport where Detective Alex Cross notices somebody reading Jonathan Franzen.
Julie Friedman, a broker with Bellmarc Realty in Manhattan, recalled a scene at an open house she held last summer, in a three-bedroom apartment on the Upper East Side.
One skit involved the cast supposedly trying to do a scene at an Italian restaurant but coming undone as "Trump" tweets about them.
Instead of giving readers what we'd most expect — a scene at an awards ceremony, say, or a character overdosing in a hot tub — Sneed offers details about the film industry and fame mainly as background.
