A simple stage area is created by erecting a backcloth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 7] Reference

For example, we decided to hire a backcloth for our show.    From Wordnik.com.  [Professionals who perform like amateurs] Reference

'Gina's got a wonderful idea for that backcloth,' said Stephen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twin Moons] Reference

The protesters were tearing down the backcloth, kicking over the scenery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sepulchre]

The others, fixed in a drum of light with a green backcloth, looked distant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starship]

A painter's pink and purple sky was backcloth to the home team's late celebrations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dean Holdsworth's 'microwave month' brings right flavour to Aldershot | Jeremy Alexander] Reference

Actors can enter or leave the stage by appearing from or disappearing behind the backcloth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 7] Reference

Marton and his wife remained none the less, like a backcloth, behind his preoccupations of the moment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maigret has Scruples]

They go out "to the front door" or "to the kitchen" and when the door opens you see a little bit of painted backcloth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twin Moons] Reference

She and her selected helpers had been busy on the backcloth of the Nile at Sunset for their next theatrical production.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twin Moons] Reference

All we get is a backcloth of what we would call dry-stone walling, and a bundle of sticks on a blue, 40-gallon oil drum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Part 5 - Act 3: The camera runs - Scene 1] Reference

His seat is covered with leopard skin and his dress is made from a mixture of cloth and backcloth made from the back tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poaching] Reference

The lilies were like a snow-field under the moon, and the dark backcloth of olives was pricked with the lights of fireflies.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Family and Other Animals]

It was here we found the seaducks that looked so much part of the wildness of the sea, with the snow-capped hills as a backcloth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Country diary: Burghead, Moray] Reference

Land, for you and I, is the backcloth to our pleasure, a living picture for us to take stock in and weigh up the measure of our life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Land « First 50 Words – Writing Prompts] Reference

Boris was no fudge, he quickly melted into the backcloth like an old cake, slighly taking candy shots of Miss Staines with her relatively.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Spaniard In The Works]

She continued walking through the well-mannered backcloth, then, rounding a corner onto the main thoroughfare, the gardens ended abruptly.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Small Death in the Great Glen] Reference

The hedge stopped on one side and instead there was a marvellous view of Sawley Castle against the night sky, like a backcloth for Macbeth.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Murder of Quality]

Spears, backcloth and gourds lay in different corners.    From Wordnik.com.  [AllAfrica News: Latest] Reference

“We must find the backcloth discreetly,” he cried.    From Wordnik.com.  [Final Curtain]

The Macbeth backcloth was simple and brilliantly conceived.    From Wordnik.com.  [Final Curtain]

The backcloth has been hung and Paul knows about the lights.    From Wordnik.com.  [Final Curtain]

And somehow the whole scene looked unreal, like a painted backcloth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death of a Harbormaster]

Against a glowing red-orange backcloth (lighting by Robert Wierzel).    From Wordnik.com.  [Village Voice - The most recent 10 stories] Reference

Alex Harrowell | the theatre of terrorism has a backcloth of newspapers.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Fistful Of Euros » A Fistful Of Euros] Reference

Then might this also be the reason for the theatrical backcloth of Vienna?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk] Reference

I use high quality linen for my backcloth, so the curtain hangs like a dream.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference

The re-emergence of class as a political issue gives his statement a new backcloth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference

Nonetheless, this element is essentially the backcloth to a more familiar big-screen fable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Culture | guardian.co.uk] Reference

Traffic holding its breath, Sky a tense diaphragm: Dusk hung like a backcloth That shook where.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Children's poetry inspires Natalie Merchant's return] Reference

At one end had been erected a little dais with concealed lighting and a blue velvet backcloth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Try Anything Twice] Reference

We have our own backcloth, spotlights and keyboard and put on an entertaining, professional show.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Against the backcloth they did from your design; lolloping clouds and a black simplified castle form.    From Wordnik.com.  [Final Curtain]

This entry's title is the theatre of terrorism has a backcloth of newspapers Alex Harrowell, and published on.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Fistful Of Euros » A Fistful Of Euros] Reference

A draught somewhere in the borders caused them to move uneasily and a rope-end tapped against the canvas backcloth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Final Curtain]

That is the backcloth to the swelling tide of criticism over the performance of new US Treasury secretary Tim Geithner.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Some of the most feted literary adaptations of recent times, whether Joe Wright's Atonement, have the war as their main backcloth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Independent.ie - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference

But all this is by the way, because except for a yard or two of gravel terrace outside the windows, it is all painted on the backcloth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Windows] Reference

'' backcloth is unique because it is biodegradable.    From Wordnik.com.  [IPS Inter Press Service] Reference

Dusk hung like a backcloth.    From Wordnik.com.  [TWICE SHY] Reference