Much of Ms. Passon's dialogue, in fact, has sharp, knowing little twists that flag the ends of scenes that haven't necessarily gotten anywhere.
When Dominic Dromgoole bought the play for the Globe I thought I would have to rewrite, put in soliloquies perhaps, cover the ends of scenes.
I was afraid of Deli's emotional outburst at the end of scene two but when we rehearsed it, I was in a real bad mood and didn't care what anyone thought so just did it.
At the end of Scene 1, when Stanley Kowalski implies that he knows Blanche has been married, Blanche, hearing in her mind the dance music that was played the night her husband committed suicide, answers him: "The boy -- the boy died.
His mind was a feverish montage of the potential consequences of losing Drummond, including several scenarios in which one of the "junior varsity" players climbed to the attic and, on orders from above, drew a gun--end of scene.
But as students scurried to classes and prepared for final exams, an ugly incident hovered over this small Catholic school, tarnishing the otherwise idyllic end-of-semester scenes.
Describes Demme's practice of cutting off the ends of action scenes to build audience uncertainty and suspense, as in the sequence showing Hannibal Lecter's escape.
She would take me through the scene and, of course, at the end of the scene, Patsey is left more broken than she began.
Their attempt to get this need met will lead, at the end of the scene, to failure--this is how the scene is over.
