Tableau: noun - a picture; used figuratively - a presentation
or description in picturesque form; a table, schedule or official list; group
of people and things grouped to form a picturesque scene; used theatrically – a
static representation of the action at a critical stage in a play; also, the
stage direction for this; sudden striking of a dramatic situation; in cards - the
arrangement of the cards when laid out for a game of patience.
'The players stopped their
action and abruptly struck a tableau in which their individual postures and
expressions interacted with their group positions to express the shock, horror
and disbelief at the sudden, and apparently inexplicable, killing of the lead
character.'
Pic: Valerie at the foot of the steps leading to the northern beach at Bridlington, East Yorkshire.
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