Toy Soldiers and Freshly Cut Lemons

In our group performance, Ambient Noise, we created masks which were intended to be looked through by members of the public, while the actors watched the audience. Behind each mask was a lit scenario for the audience to view, accompanied by a sound played through headphones. Bo chose to accompany my mask with the theme tune of Super Mario. Here is an image of the scenario which I made.

The scenario consisted of toy soldiers and freshly cut lemons.

“Suddenly all was fire and sword! Splinters of shells had gashed the
lemons. Now death was in action” (Jean Genet; The Balcony)

I chose to use lemons because I wanted to engage, not only the aural and visual senses of our audience members, but also the sense of smell.