Exclusively built for the coming performance, a waist-deep pool will be located in front of the staircase at the Cultural Centre Piazza and skilful puppeteers will stand in the water to conjure up their tales of traditional Vietnamese life. Accompanied by live music, the puppets will engage in farming, bullfighting, frog hunting, water play and parades, presenting a delightful series of scenes vividly. There will also be Vietnamese “quan ho” folk songs, which have been included in UNESCO’s Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

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As part of the Leisure and Cultural Services Department (LCSD) 
”Arts Experience Scheme for Senior Secondary Students 2011/12″, AFTEC re-ran 
Charles Dickens’ famous Great Expectations from June 28-29, 2012 (Thu-Fri). Pre-performance talks for participating schools were held in May and June 2012.

The pre-performance talk served as an introduction to the dramatist and the play and aimed to prepare the students to understand the theatrical elements of the play e.g. acting, sets and props, costumes and make up, lighting, sound and music.

A Performance of the Liberal Study Series on “Modern China”

The year 2011 marks the centennial anniversary of China’s 1911 Revolution. With the fall of the monarchy and the rise of the republic, the Forbidden City was subsequently transformed into the Palace Museum, signifying the opening up of the once royal space to mere mortals.

Regimes came and went, reordering the lives of the country. Land and space stay, leaving their fate to the hands of those in power to see fit how they should be put in use. Thus a hundred years passed.

Two couples stand out, bookending this particular hundred years of time, and of architecture in China.

Both American educated in early 1920s, Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin came back to China and devoted themselves to the ideal of recording ancient Chinese architectures and employ this knowledge to a better city planning. When a new China arrived, they chose to stay and helped create the Architecture Faculty of Tsinghua University. Ancient things are not welcome in new China.

Cambridge educated, Zhang Xin went to work in the Wall Street, met her future husband Pan Zhiyi. Together, they formed SOHO China in 1995, selling flats based on the marketing concept of “Small Office, Home Office”. The company has been doing bemusingly prosperous business. Still does.

This is a theatre with electronic music as the structure, and multimedia as the form, and also sounds, images and stage installations leading the performing roles. As the German architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, one of the pioneering masters of Modern architecture, put it, “God is in the details”, so we begin with the basic unit, and build a structure out of these units, and from the structure we get content. With what kind of units, we get what kind of structures; and with what kind of structures, we get what kind of messages and contents. Less is more is everything.

Famous sport reporter, Mitch whose insights faded, and the world seemed colder after graduation. 20 years later, he visits his college professor, Morrie, whose life is coming to an end. Mitch has that second chance to have Morrie’s lesson every Tuesday. Their rekindled relationship turns into one final “class”: lesson of LIVING.

A music and dance celebration that is filled with love

SCROOGE concerns of nothing but only money. On the Christmas Eve, he meets up with unusual circumstances: first encountering the ghost of his old friend Marley, then speaking with the spirits of the past, present and future, who teach him anew about the wonderful world and the importance to share glad tidings. This holiday season, HKRep presents a stellar cast in spreading the warmth and wonder of A Christmas Carol.

In Nanjing 1941, following a series of assassination attempts on officials of the Japanese-controlled puppet government, the Japanese spy chief gathers a group of suspects in a mansion house for questioning. A tense game of “cat and mouse” ensues as the Chinese espionage agent attempts to send out a crucial message while protecting his/her own identity.

In support of LCSD’s Arts Experience Scheme for Senior Secondary Students, we
presented the play, together with discussion forums and guidance talks, to groups of secondary
school students, so that they could better understand the personal history of Sun Yat Sen.