Crossword-Solution: BACKCLOTH 9 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 22

Every day the coast looked the same, as though we had not moved; but we passed various places--trading places--with names like Gran' Bassam Little Popo, names that seemed to belong to some sordid farce acted in front of a sinister backcloth.

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.

Are we but mocking at Utopias, you demand, using all these noble and generalised hopes as the backcloth against which two bickering personalities jar and squabble? Do I mean we are never to view the promised land again except through a foreground of fellow-travellers? There is a common notion that the reading of a Utopia should end with a swelling heart and clear resolves, with lists of names, formation of committees, and even the commencement of subscriptions.

Cheer up! You are going to get new scenery, new dresses, new backcloth----" "You see everything through the stage, Gerty.