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