I recommend one should describe specimens of an embryonic series instead of typological stage-synopses.
Although conventions vary from one country to another, the script usually develops over a number of distinct stages, from a synopsis of the original idea, through a "treatment" that contains an outline and considerably more detail, to a shooting script.
Poulenc's highly promising Les Mamelles de Tirésias, Shostakovich's The Nose and Prokofiev's The Love for Three Oranges are all much better in synopsis than on stage.
Sue Jane Stoker, Wilson's stage manager, then read a synopsis of the play's fourteen scenes, which described Anthony's journey through the world in the company of his favorite pupil, Hilarion, who turns out to be the Devil.
When Farrelly took the stage, he rambled about the synopsis of his movie, and deflected any criticisms of it by emphasizing a need to find hope in "divided times".
Mr. Hughes has staged a fast-motion synopsis of the play with musical accompaniment, as if it were a silent film, interrupted only by gales of laughter from Ms. Wilson and her expressions of alarm when Shakspere, in the small role of Sly the Tinker, doesn't entirely follow the script.
The film's US distributors Sony Pictures Classics filled in lots of the blanks on10 July, when they released a long-form synopsis, explaining that Firth plays a stage magician who is on a mission to debunk professional clairvoyant Stone.
It features a similar synopsis, with both singers performing on a large stage of an old Egyptian pyramid.
The historic record of the Rodin-Claudel relationship does not always coincide with the program synopsis, and neither version helps you to decipher the stage action.
A scrawled early synopsis of the "Ziggy thing" reveals that, at that stage, the prospective song titles for Bowie's most famous album included Out-Hipping Them At Zipps', Death In Mad Sound, and the thought-provoking Bum.
There is no synopsis in the programme, and no word spoken on stage, but from the moment the curtain rises we are led, with algorithmic precision, along an ever-darkening path.
