afterpiece|afterpieces in English

noun

brief skit performed after a play

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1. This was an afterpiece which came at the end of a play.

2. She returned to that theatre regularly through 1777, singing between the acts, in musical interludes and afterpieces.

3. By early 1875, Carte was managing the Royalty Theatre, and he needed a short opera to be played as an afterpiece to Offenbach's La Périchole.

4. Afflictings; afflictions; affluencies; affluential; afforcement; afforesting; affranchise; affricating; affrication; affricative; affrightens; affrightful; affrighting; affrontings; aficionadas; aficionados; afrormosias; afterbirths; afterbodies; afterbrains; afterburner; aftereffect; aftereyeing; aftergrowth; afterguards; afterimages; aftermarket; afterpieces; aftershafts; aftershaves; aftershocks

5. The Clown is a strategic Killer, able to control and corral Survivors by throwing bottles of The Afterpiece Tonic to create clouds of noxious gas that cover large areas for a short amount of time

6. Later ones included three written by David Garrick and based on Shakespeare - The Fairies (3 February 1755 at the Drury Lane, London), after A Midsummer Night's Dream, and The Tempest (11 February 1756, Drury Lane, London) - and a successful afterpiece, The Enchanter (13 December 1760, Drury Lane, London).