Cloudings

The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre | 1996 | 468 words | Copyright

Cloudings, permanent cloud borders used to mask the top of a scene. They could be drawn off sideways by hooked poles, and are mentioned as late as 1743. The detail of their arrangement is not clear, but they recall the form of border used by Inigo Jones in his last masque, Salmacida Spolia (1640), which had also ‘side-clouds’. These could presumably be drawn off to reveal another set behind, thus changing a stormy sky into a calm one, or vice versa.

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