Backcloth
The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
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Backcloth, flat painted canvas, or a plain surface on which light can be projected. Hanging at the back of the stage, suspended from the
grid, it was used in combination with
wings to form a wing-and-backcloth scene. It was replaced by the
box-set and is now used only in ballet, opera, and pantomime. It is known in America as a backdrop.
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Carpenter's Scene
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
Carpenter's Scene, insertion into a pantomime or spectacular musical comedy , played in front of a backcloth while elaborate scenery is set up behind out of sight of the audience. In Victorian times it was used also in serious plays, but...
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Box-Set
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
Box-Set, scene representing the three walls and ceiling of a room, not by means of perspective painting on wings , backcloth , and borders , as in early scenery, but by an arrangement of flats which form continuous walls, with practicable doors...
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Drop
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
...name for cloth , still retained in America. In England the word is first found in about 1690 to indicate an unframed canvas backcloth which offered a plain surface for painting, free from the central join which marked the earlier ‘pair of flats’...
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Cloth
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
...attached top and bottom to a sandwich batten . (See under DROP for early English usage.) Among the specialized cloths are the backcloth ; the Cut-Cloth (Cut-Out Drop in America), with cut openings which, if elaborately fretted, need the reinforcement of a piece...
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Rise-and-Sink
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
...provision of space above the stage with a low grid . Though not as lofty as the later flies , this would take the depth of half a backcloth, and a scene could therefore be changed quickly by causing the upper half to ascend and the lower half, possibly framed out...
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