[Rebirth] King of Theater

The child traffickers didn't have much performance time, but they still managed to give the audience a rather shocking opening.

After introducing their "jobs", the group of child traffickers simply used dialogue to inform the audience in a few words that they were preparing to escape by boat.

——Can’t we still live the same life as before?

——No, the world has changed.The king ordered that the child traffickers should be severely punished.

When the audience heard this, they couldn't help showing expressions of approval.

'Yes, this bad profession should have been banned long ago'; 'Child traffickers should be severely punished'.

However, the ridiculous thing is...

Correct laws did not breed correct results, but more evils.

—Many children were lost.

The child traffickers warned each other: "Don't take your children with you when you go out, even if it's your own."

"...anyone who takes a child out is a symbol of suspicious behavior to the governor, the judge, and the police officer, to be arrested, detained, and questioned."

"They're going to ask you 'where did the baby come from', 'how do you prove it's yours'? If you can't prove it, God, you're in big trouble."

Therefore, children are the source of trouble.

Of course, there are policies above and countermeasures below.

At this time, one of the simplest solutions can solve the source of the disaster—throw the child anywhere, and everything will be fine!

So, while chatting and boarding the boat, the group of child traffickers practiced what they had just said.

When the short figure who was among them and tried to help with things was actually a child and wanted to board the boat with them, two people immediately looked at each other, blocked and bumped the child tacitly, He bumped into a stagger; next, another person pushed him back deliberately with his elbow, deflecting his small body; The head of the child traffickers who performed on the stage, he grabbed the child by the back of the collar like a cat, dragged him back, threw him back, then jumped on the boat by himself, and kicked him again. He neatly kicked the gangway on which the boat rested on the shore away, and then, without hesitation, he yelled 'start the boat'!

During this process, the music was very brisk, and even... when the group of people bullied and pushed the children around, they all stepped on the beat of the music, showing an absurd but funny sense of rhythm , like a funny farce.

But when the boat slowly left the shore, the music turned sharply down, becoming bleak and miserable.

The abandoned child stood alone on the rocks on the shore.

In the darkness, he watched motionless, watching the boat drift away...

The cold wind howled and the snow was flying.

The child standing on the rock showed a pitiful expression shivering because of the cold. He didn't shout, because no one would respond to shouting; Then, muttering to himself in a childish voice: "They won't come back to pick me up."

After saying this sentence to himself, Antonio, who played the role of the young Laughing Man, climbed down from the rock.

From the audience's point of view, this is just climbing down from a high rock, but in fact, the staff behind the scenes began to control the lifting of the stage, part of the stage was raised, and the other part of the stage was lowered. The process was ingenious It will make people play, but it just divides the stage into upper and lower parts.

In the upper part of the stage, the child-traders sit in boats that heave and heave as if they were sailing the waves;

In the second half of the stage, the young Laughing Man played by Antonio began to trek forward in the wilderness, struggling to survive.

At this time, the sea voyage of the child traffickers was obviously meaningless, so the lights shining on it quickly dimmed.

In contrast, the lights in the lower half of the stage turned on.

Under the amazed eyes of the audience, the child played by Antonio was walking hard step by step in the storm. Along with his walking steps, the huge stage began to slowly rotate and move.

As a result, this journey of earning a living has magically changed from a static performance to a dynamic performance. The normal performance was just a short distance to walk on the stage, but it also changed from a visual sense to a performance that no matter how hard you try, you can’t do it. After a long, exhausting journey with no end...

String instruments played the theme of nature, and a bass singer sang the cruelty and horror of nature with a low voice behind the scenes. His singing voice was full of emotion, making the audience think of the drifting Leaves, swaying wood, cold, danger and loneliness...

As Antonio moved forward, the scenery along the way was constantly and quickly replaced by the busy staff, with endless ice fields, arc-shaped hills, and dwarf bushes...

During this process, the lighting engineer did not forget the group of child traffickers who left by boat, and gave them a little light from time to time.

Thus, the audience saw that the child traffickers encountered a storm at sea, their boat became bumpy, and the wind blew harder, and these scumbags among humans staggered and wobbled on the boat, shouting: "Quick! Quick! Raise the sails..."

The appearance of the child traffickers only lasted for a few minutes, and soon the lights were all dimmed again.

On the other side, the young Laughing Man who was abandoned on the coast is still trekking in the wilderness.

The soundtrack became more and more barren, with occasional sounds of waves, gusts of wind, and howling of wild wolves.

Inadvertently, silently and eeriely, crosses rose slowly from the stage one after another. They were scattered in the corners of the wilderness. They seemed inconspicuous, but they stood quietly in the darkness like landmarks. Huge and shocking, the dead people hanging above leaned in different postures. The only thing in common was that their heads were slumped limply and their clothes had been torn by animals or the wind. Broken into rags...

The child who came here stood stupidly in front of a cross and raised his head blankly.

The wind blew the corpse, and the skeleton rack swayed in the wind, sometimes to the left, sometimes to the right, and the huge, moving black shadow enveloped the child like this, scaring him into hugging him with his hands. Head, turned and ran wildly.

At this time, the music becomes hurried, and each scale is higher than the previous one...

It wasn't until the child stopped suddenly that the music changed its key and slowed down again.

At this time, the audience has been dazzled by the lifelike scenery and the ingenious stage effects, and the constant changing of the music makes them more emotionally involved. All thoughts and emotions are involuntarily followed by the plot. Constantly ebbs and flows.

Therefore, when Antonio stopped suddenly while running wildly, they couldn't help but aroused their curiosity, wanting to know what happened. Therefore, the audience was silent, and everyone stared at the stage intently, fearing that they might miss something.

The music quiets down.

After a long time, a fragile baby cry pierced the sky.

The flute played a sad melody like a sigh at the right time, and the light moved slowly in coordination with it, moving to the front...

There, was a woman who had frozen to death in the snowstorm.

The woman's whole body was buried in the heavy snow, her body had been frozen stiff for a long time, her head was slightly lowered, maintaining a position as if she was breastfeeding, her arms were tightly holding the baby in her arms, no expression was visible, But just looking at the posture and angle, it can be reminiscent that when she was dying, her eyes full of worry and sadness must be staring at the baby in her arms...

The music at this moment has a religious meaning, holy and compassionate.

The white light hit the stage, and the mother with the baby in her arms was surrounded by crystal snowflakes, like a statue of the Virgin Mary in an oil painting.

The short figure walked over and lifted the baby away from the frozen mother.

He took off his clothes to wrap the baby, and then used his own body temperature to warm the baby.

So, an abandoned child rescued another baby who lost his mother and was about to freeze to death.

In the upper half of the stage, child traffickers are crying and screaming in a storm of lightning and thunder.

Someone knelt down to pray, someone ran around calling for help, someone tried to grab the sail, get the oar...

"The boat is full!"

"What's full?"

"It's full of water!"

"What does full of water mean?"

"It means the boat is broken, flooded, and the boat is going to sink!"

"We have to find a way to reduce the weight of the ship, and we can't let the ship sink!"

"Throw out the useless...no, everything."

At this time, both the upper and lower parts of the stage lit up.

Different from the extremely dynamic performance of "the ship is about to sink and a mess" in the first half of the stage, the second half of the stage is an extremely quiet scene.

The young Laughing Man played by Antonio is shirtless, holding a baby and continues on. Then, he finally reaches a town populated by humans and starts knocking on doors and asking for help, but no one responds.

The audience who watched the stage intently were about to cry.

They watched the child dragging his tired and heavy steps on the deserted street step by step, looking around helplessly, and there were rows of houses all around, with small windows on the houses, but No one opened the door, not even opened the window to look out... After experiencing the cruel wilderness of nature, the poor child felt the ruthless wilderness of human cities again.

On the other side, in the upper half of the stage, child traffickers are crying and dying.

Their leader, the actor who was standing in the middle of the stage facing the audience, stood up, raised his arms helplessly, and asked in despair and panic, "Is there anything else we can throw overboard to lighten the weight of the ship?" ?”

"Yes!" A child trafficker replied abruptly.

"What is it?" asked the leader.

"Our crime!"

The child trafficker replied gravely.

what!

At the last moment of their lives, the dregs among this group of humans actually repented.

Maybe it is really a person who is about to die, and his words are good.

In silence, the leader took out a pen and a piece of parchment and began to record the sins he had committed. During the recording process, he also sang a song "May Allah forgive me".

The actor's voice is not particularly good, but it is stable and expressive on stage.

When he sang this song, his eyes were terrified and his face was pale. Beneath the seemingly calm appearance was the visible despair and pain. He humbly repented of his sins, beat his chest with his fists, and kept begging the Lord for forgiveness.

...When the song is finished, the crimes on the parchment are also recorded.

All the child traffickers came over one by one to sign and pledge.

Then, the leader rolled up the parchment of confession and some evidence of crimes, put them into a gourd, stuffed the end of the rope, and put them into the sea. The gourd full of sins was still drifting with the current, and handed over everything in the future. Leave it to the sea, fate, or some unknown god, until one day it will be discovered.

Then, the group of sinners who would no longer be forgiven by the Lord put their hands together, lowered their heads, and knelt in the boat.

Accompanied by religious music and singing in unison [I wait for my father in the sky, I wait for your name to see you...], the boat sank little by little...the sea water will submerge their heads , Everyone will kneel and drown!

The first half of the stage just went dark.

At the same time, on the second half of the stage, the abandoned child finally found someone willing to accept him.

The vagabond Ursus opened the door of the caravan.

Through the warm light in the car, he stretched out his hand towards the poor child who was holding a cumbersome baby, and asked in a tone of impatience but kindly: "Why don't you come in, little thing?"

At this moment, the band paused for a few seconds, until the child hugged the baby, and with the permission of Yuses, gratefully and happily got into the car, the strings played a moving and brisk movement in unison. The most tender and emotional moment since the show began.

So far,

The curtain just fell slowly.

Sin and purity, death and rebirth.

... The first act is finally over.