It pleased me greatly to draw out a detailed scenario, working up duly to a situation at the end of each act; and, once made, that scenario was like a cast-iron mould into which the dialogue had simply to be poured.

There is one dramatist of note whom one suspects of sometimes working without any definite scenario, and inventing as he goes along.

Pailleron wrote "enormous" scenarios, Meilhac very brief ones, or none at all.

This improbable scenario has arrived in an increasingly consumerist society with the birth of the 'free sheeter ', now making their presence felt in Goa too.

Listen to the impromptu scenario: Scene one, exterior of a Broadway theater, with the ticket-speculators getting the coin in handfuls, and" "You're out!" interrupted the producer.

This is not to say that the drawing-up of a tentative scenario ought not to be one of the playwright's first proceedings.

[Footnote 1: Sardou wrote careful and detailed scenarios, Dumas fils held it a waste of time to do so.

By the third month into the second year of publication, amid this uncertain scenario, arrived Nicholas ("Nicky")