Re-Imagine Theatre
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Re-imagine Theatre is an integrated theatre and exhibition experience. Indulge yourselves through AFTEC’s From Page to Stage® sold-out classic plays. No longer a passive member of the audience, imagine yourself as the protagonists’ companions. Experience theatre entirely differently. Bring friends and families to explore this two-month-long event with our creative learning tools—observe, feel, reflect, etc.
Re-imagine Theatre is AFTEC’s celebration of our return to the Sai Wan Ho Civic Centre after a 3-year major refurbishment. Join us in capturing the vast possibilities that theatre offers.
Date：21 / 6 – 31 / 8 / 2025
Venue：Sai Wan Ho Civic Centre
Free Admission
Around the World in 80 Days
Theatre’s secret tool!
Set Design (Stage Version):
Andrew Ritchie
Stage Model Construction:
Sinman Cheung
Stage model: a 3D map of the theatre production. It helps us visualise the story.
Set designers create different scenes on stage. S/he analyses scripts, understands the characters’ emotions, and works with the director and the creative team to tell the story.
- Where is this place? Does it remind you of somewhere you have seen?
- What stage elements catch your attention?
- If you were an actor, where would you enter, and how would you move?
Every design choice—the floor’s texture, the backdrop colour, the placement of furniture and props—serves the storytelling.
Watch the video here. Let’s step into the story of Fogg, Passepartout, and Aouda.
AFTEC 「Re 劇場：想像再啟動」《80日環遊世界》
AFTEC Re-imagine Theatre: Around the World in 80 Days
Strategy
Decision, tactics, and smart thinking!
Set Design (Stage Version):
Andrew Ritchie
Stage Model Construction:
Sinman Cheung
Stage model: unlike the realistic set of 80 Days, this play adopts an abstract and symbolic style with few props and moving parts to spark the imagination.
Adapted from Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Strategy tells the story of the intellectual battles between Zhuge Liang and Zhou Yu. Strategy prompts the audience to ponder:
Where does the real battle take place? On the battlefield? Or in our minds?
In the scene of the Empty City, Zhuge Liang orders the city gates to be left wide open as he sits above the gates, calmly playing the zither. Outside, Sima Yi’s army approaches but hesitates to attack. What is going through their minds?
Listen to the following sound effects. What emotions do they convey?
Zhuge Liang playing the zither
Hooves and footsteps outside the gate
These sound effects are important clues in theatre. They help us immerse ourselves in the characters’ situations.
AFTEC「Re 劇場：想像再啟動」《鬥智》
AFTEC Re-imagine Theatre: Strategy
Franky
Does love have boundaries?
Actors:
Candice Moore & Barry O’Rorke
AI Voiceover:
Thomas Lawson
Video Production:
HK Footage Production Ltd.
Adapted from Frankenstein, Franky tells the story of a father, Victor, who, in an attempt to save his dying son Francis, uses technology to transform him into an AI robot named Franky.
Three screens display the monologues of Victor (the father), Elizabeth (the mother), and Franky (the son turned robot).
How do the actors portray the characters’ emotions? What are their relationships?
AFTEC 「Re 劇場：想像再啟動」《機械人法朗》
AFTEC Re-imagine Theatre: Franky
The Count of Monte Cristo
A life told through costumes!
Costume Design:
Dr Vicki Ooi (stage), Miko Ku (exhibition)
Exhibition Costume Production:
Unique Design Team Limited
Three costumes = three stages of Edmond Dantès’ life in The Count of Monte Cristo.
Costume 1: Zealous young sailor
Costume 2: Wrongfully imprisoned captive
Costume 3: Vengeful baron returning to society with spite
Costumes show external changes + clues revealing his origins, his experiences, and his current behaviour.
Costumes are the “language” of storytelling.
Costume designers use different fabrics, colours, and cuts to convey a character’s background, status, and emotions. These details are key to understanding the twists and turns of characters’ fates.
AFTEC「Re 劇場：想像再啟動」《基度山恩仇記》
AFTEC Re-imagine Theatre: The Count of Monte Cristo
Celebration Programme for the Reopening of Sai Wan Ho Civic Centre
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