The five-act structure is a plot formula that divides a story into five sections: the exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. From these classical explorations comes our ...

Once upon a time, a long time ago, I was considering the possibility that there might be more to screen drama than external conflict-driven plotting when, as if hit by a thunderbolt, a new paradigm of ...

If you hear the words “once upon a time,” you might guess that you’re hearing the beginning of a child’s fairy tale. And if you hear the words “and they all lived happily ever after,” you know you’ve ...

Spoiler Space offers thoughts on, and a place to discuss, the plot points we can’t disclose in our official review. Fair warning: This article features plot details of Weapons and Barbarian.

To borrow an allusion from one of Australian novelist Janette Turner Hospital`s favorite sources, ”The Last Magician” is something rich and strange. In addition to Shakespeare, Hospital weaves ...

The play is divided into two Acts – before and after the interval. Apart from that it is divided into scenes which are not numbered. Each bullet point represents a scene.