What is "scene-shifters"

Usage examples of "scene-shifters".

Because of my mechanical bent I took pleasure in all the mechanism of a fine theatre, and wanted to know how the flymen and scene-shifters organized their work, how the electrician contrived his magic, and how Macgregor controlled it all with signal-lights from his little cubby-hole on the left-hand side of the stage, just inside the proscenium.

Artists, scene-shifters, dancers, supers, choristers, subscribers were all asking questions, shouting and hustling one another.

I fear that more than one of those men -- old scene-shifters, old door-shutters -- who have never been seen again were simply tempted to cross the lake.

To obtain access through the stage-door to the back of the theatre was one thing—a franc to the doorkeeper had done the trick—to mingle with the scene-shifters, to talk with the supers, to take off my hat with every form of deep respect to the principals had been equally simple.

It enabled me to walk composedly and not too hurriedly through the crowd behind the scenes—supers, scene-shifters, principals, none of whom seemed to be aware as yet of the hoax practised on Mademoiselle Mars' maid.