Pepper’s Ghost can be adapted to make performers apparently materialise from nowhere or disappear into empty space. Pepper would sometimes greet an audience by suddenly materialising in the middle of the stage. The illusion can also apparently transform one object or person into another. For instance, Pepper sometimes suspended on stage a basket of oranges which then ‘transformed’ into jars of marmalade. is an illustrative 19th century showman’s use of Pepper’s Ghost. Such simulated materialisations and transformations require synchronised manipulation of the lighting in the area visible to the audience as well in the hidden area. This is described further in a subsequent section.