Favourite method to end a play

[Agentt]

So, a person I once knew had a hobby of acting on a stage. He once told me that amateur playwriters love to end plays by killing everyone(like the romeo and juliet thing) because that ties all loose ends together and there are no plot holes. Another such way is to end the play by saying, "and then he woke up," insinuating that everything was a dream till now; yet another method to tie loose ands and plotholes.

What's your favourite method to end a story?

 

[NotaNuffian]

Leave it open ended? Go to the sunset?

 

[Representing_Tromba]

My favorite ending to a play was at the end of Cyrano De Bergerac. The hero dies but everyone else lives to lament his death and wish that they had never treated him so poorly. Here's the entire play if you want 2 hours of heart wrenching poetic genius.

 

[BenJepheneT]

An open fist fight between all the cast members. Audiences are free to join. Doesn't matter which play, we could all be singing along to Les Miserables and we'd cut off the song in half just to have an onstage Fight Club.

 

[ThrillingHuman]

He once told me that amateur playwriters love to end plays by killing everyone(like the romeo and juliet thing) because that ties all loose ends together

Oh, so that's what cia does. Who knew it was a playwrighting company

 

[BlackKnightX]

Show the two leads kissing each other and then pan to the bedside lamp…

 

[Ilikewaterkusa]

So, a person I once knew had a hobby of acting on a stage. He once told me that amateur playwriters love to end plays by killing everyone(like the romeo and juliet thing) because that ties all loose ends together and there are no plot holes. Another such way is to end the play by saying, "and then he woke up," insinuating that everything was a dream till now; yet another method to tie loose ands and plotholes.

What's your favourite method to end a story?

Nuke them all

 

[BenJepheneT]

Show the two leads kissing each other and then pan to the bedside lamp…

Schindler's List just took a whole different meaning for me.

 

[RepresentingCaution]

I have difficulty ending stories. I just want to enjoy the journey forever.

 

[Agentt]

I have difficulty ending stories. I just want to enjoy the journey forever.

Me too! I just can't end a story, since my pace is so slow, the characters take a long long time to get any character development

 

[Siostar]

Make the worst ending as possible and add a Happy April fool after The End

 

[gaylolis]

i think the best ending for me is when the mc achieved their goals to the fullest and perhaps moving on to a grander stage or something different.

it was simply an end of a phase and a new beginning. as for the continuation, it's kinda optional, really.