“And there’s some that stay in darknessWhile the others walk in the lightThose in darkness, you don’t see them,Only those who’re in the light” (Bertol Brecht)This is a little film about what happens backstage at an opera house. As the music of Mozart’s “Magic Flute” fills the theatre, fifty men and women work below, behind and above the stage, pushing and pulling, hoisting and winding. They are silent, fast, skilful and invisible. They are the secret magicians of the theatre.