afterpiece
Short concluding entertainment
An afterpiece is a short play, farce, or entertainment performed after the main theatrical production.
The term belongs to 18th- and 19th-century theater, when evening programs often featured a serious drama followed by lighter fare: The afterpiece was a comic pantomime that sent the audience home laughing.
Absurd, laughable situation
- interludePause between sections
- sketchHasty informal drawing
- skitBrief comic performance
- curtain-raiserPreliminary theatrical performance
burlesque · pantomime · entertainment · divertissement · harlequinade · comic relief · short play · one-act
Concluding literary section
- codaClosing musical passage
- denouementStory's final unraveling
- postscriptEnd-of-letter addition
- wrap-upConcluding summary or review
closure · sequel · follow-up · swan-song · farewell · sign-off · valediction · endpiece
farce
Absurd, laughable situation
curtain-raiser · burlesque · pantomime · entertainment · divertissement · harlequinade · comic relief · short play · one-act · vaudeville
epilogue
Concluding literary section
- codaClosing musical passage
- denouementStory's final unraveling
- postscriptEnd-of-letter addition
wrap-up · closure · sequel · follow-up · swan-song · farewell · sign-off · valediction · endpiece · tail end
afterpiecemain attraction
Primary point of interest
opening act · curtain-raiser · prologue · prelude · forepiece
afterpiecemain attraction
Primary point of interest
main event · headliner · centerpiece · star turn · headline act
piece, after, afterward, aftermath, afternoon, afterlife, masterpiece, hereafter, thereafter