Sentence examples for this first scene from inspiring English sources

What LaBute engineers in this first scene is the meeting of Adam and, well, Eve.

But the garish baroque absurdity promised in this first scene is not delivered and the space feels empty.

Giovanni himself is "dark and leonine"; more pointedly, he's imagined in this first scene as standing "on an auction block".

In this first scene we listen as Guy learns that he has the part after all, since the actor who first won it has mysteriously gone blind.

Mr. Fairouz wrote the libretto, adapting it from the Hakim play, and in this first scene there are cumbersome dramatic stretches where the back story has to be filled in through overly detailed dialogue between the sisters.

Floyd is being mourned in this first scene; at the end of the play, he's reported to have ascended into heaven, lifted by six men in black who might be either angels or employees of the funeral parlor.

This would be a useful activity in this second scene.

Especially in the first half of the 20th century, this second scene was seen as a high point of ballet as drama.

The role has tempted more recent stars to dance it, including Baryshnikov, who not only performed it onstage but also filmed this second scene for Margot Fonteyn's 1979 TV series, "The Magic of Dance".

The way this second scene is achieved though, is pure pulpy horror, with the supposedly state-of-the art surgical facility suddenly feeling like a creepy, poorly-lit asylum.

Is this the first scene of a French teen romance or the opening shock of an English-language horror flick?