Content tagged with "theater"
A principle of fiction that says every story element has to matter to the overall plot, and if something doesn’t further the plot, it should be removed. The principle is often stated as: If a gun appears in Act One, it better go off in Act Three. The original reference was by the Russian playwright…
This is a line from Act 1, Scene 2 of Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings. Cassius is trying to explain to Brutus that their current lives were not due to fate . In a 1980 episode of Buck Rogers, Dr. Goodfellow…
This was the main character of 1957 the musical The Music Man. Hill is a conman who takes money from townspeople with the promise to create a youth band, but intends to abscond with the funds. From a news article about someone who promoted a new racetrack and took investments from motorsports…
