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‖ scène à faire Theatr.|sɛn a fɛr|
Pl. scènes à faire.
[Fr., lit. ‘scene for action’.]
The most important scene in a play or opera, made inevitable by the action which leads up to it. Also transf.
1893Manch. Guardian 24 Oct. 8/3 The subject of the ‘Dame aux Camellias’ trying to begin life over again, and to live as if the past had never been, has often been essayed, and the scène à faire of her confrontation..with the inexorable reality of things has been often and sometimes admirably composed. 1921P. Lubbock Craft of Fiction vii. 102 Thackeray's skill betrays him... His climax, his scène à faire, has been insufficiently prepared for. 1922W. S. Maugham On a Chinese Screen xlviii. 188 He was asking for the pièce bien faite, the scène à faire, the curtain, the unexpected, the dramatic. 1948F. R. Leavis Great Tradition ii. 112 The brilliant art with which James, choosing his scènes à faire, works in terms of dramatic presentation. 1965New Statesman 10 Dec. 943/2 A big added scène à faire in the council chamber gave Verdi a chance for the creation of an ensemble that looks forward very clearly to the third act of Otello. 1969Listener 13 Feb. 220/2 Robert Hoffman acts badly, and the scène à faire in a wobbling rowing boat..is a triumph of embarrassment. 1980Times 14 Mar. 13/8 They do, eventually, get a scène à faire (which, so often, proves to be a scène à ne faire) in which she tries to treat him as Louis XV. |