Yip Cheuk Tong, MoonSet/Stage Design、Production Design、Scenography、Costume Design

The scene changes in the performance associate with the images of the people in the absurd and chaotic time of the Umbrella Movement that took place in 2014 in Hong Kong. A tree specimen that has been soaked in chemical fluids is hanging in the mid air horizontally, representing the helplessness in living that is commonly experienced by Hong Kong people. There are totally 10 stories in the play. All the sets, props and furnitures needed for each story have been placed on the stage in the beginning. Each individual object offers a microscopic view into the lives of the characters in different stories, and also acts as a symbol for the situations that people are facing in the real world. Through the transitions between stories, the objects will be removed bit by bit just like “ants moving home” by the performers, and the space and set is thus transformed. This happens until the last scene of the play in which the stage is almost empty. With revolving of the stage in the last scene, all the objects will appear again. Like ants building anthill, performers make every effort to stack up all the objects, representing the infinite hopes that people have for the shuffling and remapping of life. It closely resembles the barriers and defensive lines for fighting for social justice that people built out of fragile daily life objects in the Umbrella Movement. Year 2015, people seem to have got over the chaotic time and resumed living in peace, repeating the same bustling and the same blindness as before. However, “ants” would never forget how much they wished to defend for their “home” through the action of “changing the scenes”.