act curtain

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It’s Paul who brings down the first act curtain of Selina Fillinger’s rough-and-tumble feminist comedy — and with it, in a way, the patriarchy itself.

From New York Times • Apr. 27, 2022

I leave my seat the moment the first act curtain starts to fall.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 15, 2017

Audiences were ready to expect anything at the first act curtain.

From Time Magazine Archive

So theatrically threadbare is this narrative scheme that it takes an ignited dish of red fire to bring down the first act curtain, an off-stage explosion to close Act II.

From Time Magazine Archive

And so the last double-volume but one ends with a suitable "fourth act" curtain, as we may perhaps call it.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by Saintsbury, George