back-cloth star

English

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Noun

back-cloth star (plural back-cloth stars)

An actor who stands upstage, forcing the other actors to face him and turn their backs to the audience, in order to draw more attention to himself.

References

Eric Partridge (1970) A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English […] , 7th edition, New York: Macmillan

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