coup de théâtre

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) A sudden or unexpected event in a play, pulled off by the author, the director, or even an actor.
 * 2) * 1996, Bernard Knox, endnotes to Robert Fagles's translation of The Odyssey:
 * This may be due to the fact that Aeschylus, in the last play of the Oresteia (458 B.C.), brings him to Athens to stand trial for his mother's murder--a coup de théâtre that would have been spoiled if he had come from there in the first place.
 * 1) A theatrical trick or gesture, something staged for dramatic effect.
 * 1) A theatrical trick or gesture, something staged for dramatic effect.

Noun

 * 1) coup de théâtre, twist, plot twist