tableau curtain

The insurrectionists seemed actors in a surreal episode of revolutionary play-acting in which the curtain was about to fall.

She walked away toward another door, which was masked with a curtain that she lifted.

I seized the opportunity to watch what I supposed would be a most interesting interview, from behind a curtain.

She thrust a bare, white arm from the curtain which shielded her open door, and received the cup from his hands.

We haven't even seen a review of the piece; the footlights go up with a jump, and now the curtain rises.

The overture is over, the curtain is about to rise on the drama of Georgie's married life.