Take Taobao with you to another world

Few people do not want to see the performance of the Union Theater Company.

After hearing the news that the theater troupe was leaving from Industrial City, the residents of New Marci City began to look forward to it eagerly.Radio has become the most popular and effective medium in a very short period of time, accounting for one-third of entertainment content is undoubtedly an important factor.People believed that the melodious music and language programs they heard on the radio came from the superb performances of the Union Theater Company, and they were regarded as producers of spiritual food.

For others, the Alliance's invasion of this land, whose true face is still hidden in the distant mist, is mostly manifested in physical form. This will be the first time they face the Alliance's cultural offensive.It is natural for people to want to know where such amazing material wealth can be created, and what will be created in art-in fact, most people's thoughts are not so clear. After hearing about the performance of the alliance, they only have the moment A strong thought—"I'm going to see it"—just.

Singing and dancing entertainment is a kind of luxury enjoyment. At present, there is only this city, and only this city can allow people to enjoy it without any burden.There was not a foreign trader who had not seen the performances in the inn halls, the bards, jugglers, and clowns who came and went every day for the good treatment of New Mahidol, religious plays, guild plays, and morality plays. It was staged in turn, dizzying and filling the empty waiting time before the trade fair started.Although every copper coin is precious to foreign traders, at least half a copper coin a day can get a bed, hot water, a hearty meal and so many wonderful performances, no matter how stingy a person is All have to admit it is great value for money.

The hired performers are also satisfied.Natural disasters and man-made disasters have caused most industries to die down. Only the Gentiles and their hostels have maintained a strong and steady demand for such occupations, and they are excellent, quite the best employers, not only pay Rich, never in arrears, will provide board and lodging at any time, and I neither, nor allow any audience to harass and humiliate them, and even give them gifts when saying goodbye.This was the case when they were "Gentiles doing business," and it remained the same after they captured the city of Marci and repelled the incoming enemies, and their reputation spread all over the world.

Although the troupe who came to perform here would "lose" some members from time to time after the establishment of the new Mahi City, and even the entire troupe "disappeared", but no horror legends were brewed. People are sure that they are all divorced from the original Occupation, joined the New Marsh City as a defector.This added another reason for the Gentiles' enemies to attack, did a little bit of damage to their reputation, and then that was it.When the city of New Marci issued a call to the outside world, there were only a few people who claimed to be actors and wanted to get on the white ship—and almost all of them succeeded.

Most of these people who have come to this city through various efforts are ready not to go back. Before joining this city, they will try their best to use various rough performances to earn some money for themselves. , they also wanted to see, out of curiosity and the competitive nature of some, how strange it was for the troupe to make their shows indifferent to the city's new inhabitants.

Under the common expectation, the trading market at night is also not lively.When people came back from dinner, they found that the wide stage was ready. The managers of the market removed the walls on both sides of the central stage, widened the table, and hung a huge curtain behind it. "Hidden at the top of the stage, illuminating the open space below as if it were daytime, several rows of benches and long tables were arranged in a semicircle under the stage, surrounded by long hemp ropes and columns.

Due to the previous assistance from the Gentiles, many people have eaten the "good bread" from this city. After staying in the market hotel, the food supply is relatively sufficient. The street lamps and stage lights are completely enough for people who are not seriously night blind .Even though the bell announcing the start of the performance had not yet sounded, the excited and anticipating people had already gathered in front of the stage in a large scale, and their faces were illuminated by the lights. Most of them were foreign traders, and a few of them were hired performers. There are new residents of the city, too, but not many—fewer than anyone imagined.

Because there are two other wonderful performances in other parts of the city tonight, even earlier than this place in the trading market. It is said that the form is extremely fresh and has firmly attracted the new residents, so those who are diverted to this stage The number of people has decreased a lot.This approach is to prevent accidents that may be caused by excessive concentration of the crowd. There is no special explanation for the traders in the hostel. The people who gathered in front of the stage just felt a little strange and lucky, and then turned their attention to the stage in front of them.

Night has completely fallen, the sky is twinkling with stars, the ground is brightly lit, and the evening wind is chilly, but the gathered crowd forms a heat island. They stand crowded together in the open space, shaking their bodies, looking up at this never-before-seen bright stage.

They were amazed when the staff moved the painted wooden boards onto the stage and placed them on the stage. They first regarded the band in uniform coming out from one side of the stage as actors, and when they took their seats under the stage, they thought they were holding Ceremonial staff of ritual vessels.The spectators, who were very ignorant of the glittering musical instruments in their hands, dared not take a step beyond the barrier made of hemp rope, stretched their necks to watch them set up large books on the table, and assumed a waiting posture.

What are they waiting for?

Wait for the bell.

The solemn bells pierced through the cold night wind, one after another, the noisy human voices fell in the bells, when the aftermath of the bells gradually sank into the watery night, the clear flute sounded like a morning bird waking up, gently With a leap, flapping its wings, it pierced through the night sky. In the bright and joyful tone, young men and women dressed in sackcloth and carrying wooden hoes appeared on both sides of the stage, leaping onto the stage lightly with a posture commensurate with the sound of the flute.

The eyes of the audience who expected to see some beautiful dancers or funny clowns couldn't help but go wide, which was unexpected!

But they didn't feel that they were deceived, not just because the joyous song of the flute attracted people, these actors with farm tools seemed to step on the melody, and came to the center of the stage with a very beautiful dance step, as if for the first time As if they met each other, the two groups of young men and women made shy and sizing gestures, or hid their faces and snickered, or puffed up their chests to let them look at each other. The two leaders approached each other, exchanged a word or two with body language, Take a step back from the left to the right, raise the hoe and then swing it down, as if drawing a boundary-the flute sound is raised here, and then tuned, and then the drumsticks fell, people only felt a shock in the heart, and the dancers on the stage raised their heads Come, it seems to hear the thunder of spring.

After a moment of silence, the grand movement rushed towards us like a surging wave, and the brilliant symphony of instruments vibrated from the eardrums to the soul, stealing people's minds; in this trembling auditory impact, the dancers on the stage have transformed like magic Formation was formed, and a dance with an obvious theme of farming was initiated.No one ever saw such a dance, nor such a form: based on laborious labor, yet so grandly and powerfully arranged, the movements of the dancers as exact and neat as if they were one; I have never seen the scale of this kind of dance. With the ups and downs of the melody, the dancers who performed farming naturally retreated to the two sides, giving the center of the stage to other performers who unknowingly stepped on the stage. They performed the process of sowing and planting with baskets... Dancers wearing different costumes and holding different props came onto the stage like flowing water, and then went down like flowing water. At most, the number of dancers performing on stage at the same time may exceed There are 100 people, people's eyes can't see it at all.

But such a variety of performances will not make people feel confused. The audience can not only distinguish the content of the performance through their representative movements, but also perceive the change of seasons from the changes in clothing and dance forms.Time flows like a long river, and the beautiful and emotional melody is like the waves on the river. Some repertoires are not only an excellent foil for stage performances, but their own performance can arouse people's inner waves. As for dancing and singing Itself, plowing, sowing, weeding, watering, and harvesting. Perhaps before this, no one thought that these ordinary and even humble labors could be put on the stage and expressed in such a vivid form. Most audiences can still feel the praise of hard work in these works. The stage seems to have become the earth, where people live and work, undergo various natural tests, are full of hope and endure hardships. They are full of love for life and persist in making more Keep striving for a better life.

When the performance came to the end, snowflakes representing winter fell from the sky one after another. A child stood in the center of the stage, catching the snowflakes with both hands, and raised her face. The light from top to bottom illuminated her little face almost transparently, representing The aftertaste of harvest and storage is still vibrating in the air, and a single-stringed music sounds, its melody is so melodious, but also so cold and lonely, it seems to bring the desolation of winter to people's hearts, in this melody, Dancers in white came onto the stage silently.

Around this child, barefoot women dance lightly. This is the dance of snow that represents the end and rest. The river of time seems to have come to an end here, and is about to flow into the ocean of eternity. When the white flowers gather and open, the child is already in their The snowflakes are getting denser and denser, and the curtain flutters as if blown by a strong wind. The women bend their backs, and the snowflakes fall on them. The lights on the stage gradually dim until the audience can only rely on other places. The bright lights make out the faint outlines on the stage.

Is that the end of the show?

Before the confusion and disappointment of the audience turned into doubts, a somewhat familiar flute sounded like chirping birds, awakening hope in the dark, and lights appeared on the stage again, changing from dim to bright, and getting brighter and brighter , People saw that the snow stopped, the white dancer slowly propped up his body, and looked up to the sky with the waking child, like a bird following the sound of a flute with its eyes.The joyful flute fluttered, higher and higher, more cheerful, and then new instruments joined it, and the women stood up from the ground holding the children's hands, and walked across the stage in pursuit, until the thunderous drums It sounded again, and they turned around at the edge of the stage——

The colorful chapter played again, just like the return of spring, the women who were fixed on both sides of the stage flicked their hands from their shoulders down, and the audience felt a blur in front of their eyes, and the white clothes instantly turned into colorful clothes. Entering the stage, the gorgeous skirt is like a flower blooming, and the audience exclaimed and admired bursts. They couldn't look away and watched these spring lovers twirling and gathering in the center of the stage. Between the staggered footsteps and waving arms, The brightly colored dresses fluttered, and vitality and joy returned to the human world. Amidst the sound of rhythmic taps, one row after another of dancers climbed up the steps again and entered the arena arm in arm until all the actors returned. When they arrived on the stage, they smiled and bowed to the audience in the movement that reached its peak. Immediately, the curtain fell——

The show is over!

"The effect of the performance is good." The person in charge of the Marketing Management Office said at the summary meeting.

"How did the audience take these performances?" asked the head of the troupe.

"The response to the program at the trade fair venue was more enthusiastic, and the city's sense of identity with the program was stronger." The person in charge of the market said, "But in general, they have been greatly welcomed. Whether it is singing, dancing or drama, these new forms of performances are very popular. All of them have greatly shocked the audience. According to current observations, they have not shown anything that they cannot adapt to. They can understand and resonate with performances that express secular feelings. There are also a few people who realize that these feelings are in line with the old rule. The inconsistencies of the..."

He was clearly describing the impact of the performance on the audience in the past few days. The head of the troupe was listening and recording on paper. Soon after this topic passed, he turned to the next one: the sales status of the products at the fair; the number of signed labor contracts; Food and drink consumption at the market lodge; some specific personnel arrangements, and so on.

These people try their best to communicate in the same language. Although it is inevitable—even inevitable, there will be many unique vocabulary of the alliance—the lords who watched the meeting have become accustomed to this way of communication, and they can concentrate on distinguishing what they will feel. The main content of the topic of interest.

But today they are all a little absent-minded.

Unlike those "uninformed" foreign traders, the lords came into contact with things like radios almost from the very beginning, and were quite addicted to it. Contact, so in their view, this time the alliance sent a theater troupe to the city for the same purpose, but how can hearing be better than seeing it?

Everyone has expectations, but almost no one can expect that what they see is this kind of - like this, like this - it seems that they are not watching some performances in the market on a late autumn night, but are surrounded by magicians. And the psychedelic lights are drawn into a series of strange dreams, the soul shuttles among the bustling colors, travels to heaven, witnesses hell, and experiences all kinds of joys and sorrows that do not belong to oneself.

The performances at the Market Hotel had ceased altogether due to the troupe's evening performances, and none of the hired actors wanted to be shocked by the audience, who themselves were obsessed with the memory of the night, but were unable to reproduce it with their poor technique.Songs, dances and dramas have become the new hot topics of the trade fair. Even though they have completed all their lives to participate in this grand event, when it is time to go back, people are still reluctant to give up.

There is no doubt that whether or not they return to this city in the future, this will be the most unforgettable experience in their lives.

As for the lords, if they think that they are more qualified to evaluate spiritual products than those rude and inferior hired performers and foreign traders, then this kind of pride has been completely shattered these days.

It's hard to imagine that the Alliance has always shown through the pioneers that they have very rich material wealth, and those who admit this do not think that they also have a commensurate spiritual wealth-because "Gentiles" are always interested in various " "Inferior people" are extremely gracious, so those who claim to be noble think that even wealth cannot reverse their low nature. The old brand of slavery is rough, tyrannical, with no skills but no accumulation.

Gentiles ignore this arrogant prejudice as much as they ignore their slander.They never cared.

As for the song and dance alone, the troupe from the Union presented a completely new form of performance, both dancing and playing, and they felt so passionate and magnificent, if not without restrained and soothing lyrical chapters-and embody It reveals the close connection and exquisite structure within a mature system, so its content is even more shocking: when the performance flows on the stage with four seasons as the boundary, people can see that its purpose is only one: to praise human labor and life.

Regardless of form or content, this performance overturns the common sense that noble things such as "art" belong to only a few people.They saw that even after the performance ended, when the lights on the stage were still on, people lingered in the cold wind, or were silent and in a trance, thinking about the performance just now, or talking softly with their partners, or even shouting excitedly.The lords were among the crowd like ordinary spectators, infected by their emotions, and clearly felt the fact that no one questioned why the performance had labor as the theme, and none of the programs (including The chorus that cleanses the soul like a chant, it has something to do with religion or aristocracy in the winter chapter of withering and resurrection.

These brilliant psalms of man praise only the “lower” and completely exclude the “higher.”But the "gentlemen" did not disappear at these feasts.

They appear on stage in another form.

The tight, dizzying song and dance is followed by drama, a more exotic arrangement but no less riveting.To be honest, this is an excellent drama, there are many characters, each of them is lifelike, the lines are read clearly and loudly, and easy to understand, even many characters don’t even have lines, and the plots and characters about them are passed through Dressing up and body movement performance, the performance of the actors, is undoubtedly extremely difficult, just as the stage promotes the progress of the story through the flickering of lights and the changes of various scenery, but if it is not so meticulous, it may not be possible to have such a good performance. The performance effect-people don't even have time to distinguish the skills, but are deeply attracted by the plot itself.

Hundreds of people gathered in the cold night, only their upturned faces were illuminated by the lights of the stage. This is a group of audiences who can't count, simple-minded, and sensual. Facing those extremely amazing artistic performances, They can't even utter a decent compliment, and although they have grown their mouths, they can only utter various monosyllables of surprise.And when the plot of this quiet drama unfolded in front of them, they seemed unable to see the acting skills of the actors, and could only focus on the miserable, tragic story itself-but this is exactly what the performers hope to achieve.

This play is adapted from a true story.This story has been heard by many, and it is about a franchised businessman.

It started from his teenage years.People didn't know who this story was about at first, but saw a mother raising a child alone. Although there were no lines, everyone could see that she was a witch: her appearance and her behavior conformed to Most people recognize this profession, but in this stage, this mother is hard to make people think that she is evil.Soon after, she was tried and burned for "blasphemy".Her son, the boy, had to flee from his hometown and wander around. He was cunning and quick-witted, and even though he was not deeply involved in the world, he could still escape many cruel traps for a helpless person like him.He was a good lad, so there was some chance of staying somewhere for a long time, but he never stopped.

Until he met a group of very strange people, he observed how they donated medicines and traded, and at an appropriate time, he took the opportunity to get in touch with these people.

Then, at last, he had an identity, and he became a chartered merchant for the Gentiles, connecting them with the natives.

He did a good job at the job, and was soon on his own, taking part in important affairs and putting himself in various dangers.His past life skills came into play again, and with a very capable partner, he turned the corner again and again.until the last time—

When the theme of "peasant uprising" appeared on the stage, and it was not in the capacity of being criticized, the lords among the crowd began to feel uneasy.And the subsequent development of this play completely confirmed their premonition, even more malicious than they could imagine. In this section of friendship, they are already on pins and needles.In the dim light, they can detect that some people in the crowd are also very uncomfortable.

But more - the vast majority of the audience just watched the plot of the story quietly and silently. Their silence was like a cage, imprisoning them in place. Keep watching, watching the old and the young being dragged out of the prison, and the scene changes to the execution ground.

This section is undoubtedly the climax of the whole play. It took longer than before to prepare the props alone. During this gap, we should express our feelings and talk about the plot as before, but many people already knew what would happen next, so they didn't speak much at this time, and the low words were like a gust of night wind, and they dissipated when they blew past their ears.

Then, the curtain was opened again, the lights were brightly lit, and everything on the stage was vividly illuminated. The nobles and bishops in fine clothes sat on high seats, accounting for almost half of the stage. Dao Dao Hua Guang almost blurred their faces. At the same time, they turned their heads slowly like puppets, looked down at those sinners who were in a state of embarrassment but vivid expressions, and then slowly opened the corners of their wide mouths to reveal a bloodthirsty smile. Even the lords in the crowd were terrified.

It is an instinctive fear of the inhuman.

What happened next, even though I knew it was a dramatic interpretation, was still a horrifying nightmare.

The lords didn't even know how they made it to the end of the show and fled back to their residences.In those fragmentary memories, when the old bishop tremblingly picked up those bones from the ground, tears flowed through the gully of people's cheeks like a stream, and these audiences with poor language conveyed an extremely deep emotion wordlessly, Even if the lords who were forced to stay until the end could hardly resonate, they were still in shackles. The more they knew that this was an irreversible fact that had already happened, the heavier their mental rigging was, pushing them down all the way until Dragging them down the deep and heavy bottom, the soul leaves the body, falls from the dark night onto the stage, and stands naked among the condemned corpses, facing people's eyes.

It wasn't their doing, they didn't commit such evil—

But they were already in an enemy country.