Kercherov and Effie sneak backstage into the concert hall, where one of Shakespeare's four great tragedies is "King Lear" staged at the Mooney Hall today.1 The story is based on an old legend in the Ying Kingdom, and there are many poems and essays on this theme, and Shakespeare adds a tragic ending to the story.Shakespeare was at the height of his career when he painted King Lear.His view of life and the world is clearer and more thorough, and he is more concerned with human nature, morality and philosophical speculation.The troupes performing in the concert hall have added more new elements to Shakespeare's creations to make the characters and images more three-dimensional.The audience was dressed in gorgeous costumes, while the actors on stage were dressed in ragged clothes that had been sewn and patched with patches of various colors, creating a comical contrast between the stage and the audience.The actors on stage are painstakingly paying attention to their pathetic feelings into the lyrics they sing.Khcherov and Effie were late, and the plot of the play was nearing its end.In the story, King Lear has entered old age, and his beloved youngest daughter, Cordelia, is murdered by an adulterer.Caudilia, who radiates humanity in thought and deed, is in keeping with the spirit of the Light Cult, and she loves her father with sincerity and selflessness, and she endures it in silence despite being told that he is being treated unjustly and unfairly.On stage, the scene of Caudilia being put on the gallows.The actress who plays the role of Cordelia is awe-inspiring, she makes a look of no fear of death, and seems to have been prepared for the consciousness and psychological preparation of facing death.The gallows on stage are set up by a series of elaborate mechanisms that allow the actors to wear the hemp rope of the props around their necks, and then a vertical wooden board behind them to support the actors' bodies to avoid real accidents.This is not the first time the troupe has performed in public.All props were inspected prior to the performance, including the gallows used to show the hanging.Two sturdy men playing soldiers clamped the actress who played the Caudilia and put a rope around her neck seemingly rudely but carefully."
Ah, my dear father, may there be an elixir of healing for the wounds I have spoken, so that I may, before I die, be able to heal the wounds inflicted on you by my two sisters, and in your heart!"
2 Then a mechanism was pulled to retract the standing pedals at the actress's feet.The actress's feet were off the ground in an instant, and the wooden plank behind her protruded from the backdrop behind her, supporting her body.The audience in the audience was in an uproar when they watched this scene, and the realistic props and the tragic background music at this time made the audience feel sad about this scene.The actress on stage had her hands tied behind her back, and her legs were kicking wildly in the air, as if she was really going to be hanged.As the minutes ticked by, she gradually stopped struggling, but her eyes turned white and her long tongue came out.The male lead, who is playing King Lear, senses that something is wrong, but this is a public performance, and there is no room to stop at all.Two men playing soldiers took the actress's body off the gallows, and they didn't have any lines, just silently doing what was written in the script.But the two glanced at each other when they took the actress off, and they also felt the abnormality of the actress at this time.According to past acting experience, actresses would put their hands on their shoulders, but at this time she did not react.The audience silently sighed at the professionalism of the actress's acting skills, and even the real death can be played vividly.The show continues, and the next scene is where the old King Lear cries over Cordelia's body and goes into madness.Two silent soldiers gently laid the actress's body flat on the ground, but the actress still didn't react.The male lead actor who played King Lear stepped forward, and from a closer look, he saw that there were real strangulation marks on the actress's neck.He sat on his knees, embraced the actress in his arms, and cried bitterly, "Oh, my Cordelia, why did you leave me?
Leave me such an incompetent and lonely old man in this world!
”But his voice began to tremble slowly as he saw the sight in the actress's eyes.It was a green city, and an illusion large enough to cover the sky reigned over it.The phantom was a monster, a being completely incomprehensible to humans.He could be faintly seen as a human figure, a pair of tattered and deformed bat-like wings, an octopus-like head with many tentacles, and a body covered with scalp-tinging and physiologically uncomfortable fluids, like a gelatinous substance covered in fish scales.The bloated and fat body and the huge green body stand up from the city, like a giant from Greek mythology rising from the earth.Everything in the picture trembled, as if in fear of His majesty.His presence is reminiscent of fear and even transcends it.And the oldest and strongest human emotion is fear; And the oldest and strongest fear is the fear of the unknown.A sentence suddenly appeared in the heart of the male lead, "He is still alive, ready to move in his slumber, we pray to you, and I beg you to answer our prayers."
Let us tell our lost compatriots to be ready to wake up from our slumber and the great presence of the city of L'Ralaye.We don't know anything, we give our lives to the great Cthulhu, we give ourselves to the great Cthulhu!
”The male lead's heart was full of panic at this time, he no longer cared whether the actress in his arms was alive or dead, he only knew that he was infinitely close to death.A yellowish, fishy liquid flowed from beneath him, and his appearance was extremely dejected and vicissitudes.It's not acting, it's the powerlessness of being a human being in the face of greatness.Even if he just saw a phantom with some images, the heart of the male lead actor was also seriously hit.The audience still didn't care if it was part of the performance, but gradually some people noticed that something was wrong."
There should be lines at this time, right?"
Effie frowned and asked Kecherov."
Huh?"
Kcherov was thinking, and just now he noticed a strange fluctuation.Unlike the ethereal and evil power of the Yellow Cloak Group, that power is filled with a tide-like wetness, and even has a faint smell of fish and shrimp.It was the breath of the ocean, but it was not an ocean of life, but an ocean of decay and death.