Kercherov and Effie sneaked into the backstage of the concert hall. Today, the play performed in Munich Concert Hall was King Lear, one of the four great tragedies of the great writer Shakespeare.
The story comes from an ancient legend of Ying. There are many poems and essays based on this theme, and Shakespeare added a tragic ending based on the original story.
When Shakespeare wrote King Lear, he was at the peak of his artistic career.
His views on life and the world are clearer and more thorough, and he pays more attention to thinking about human nature, morality and philosophy.
The troupe performing in the concert hall added more new elements to Shakespeare's works to make the characters and images more three-dimensional.
The audience in the audience were wearing gorgeous costumes, while the actors on the stage were wearing shabby clothes like those of ordinary people, which were patched up and had patches of various colors, creating a funny contrast between the stage and the audience.
The actors on the stage are working hard to focus their tragic emotions on the lyrics they sing.
Ketchev and Effie arrived 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 a villain.
Cordelia, who exudes the radiance of humanity, conforms to the spirit of the Church of Holy Light in both her thoughts and actions. She loves her father sincerely and selflessly. Although she is treated unreasonably and unfairly by her father who believes what others say, she silently endures it all.
The scene on stage was where Cordelia was being hanged.
The actress who played Cordelia was dignified and upright. She acted as if she was not afraid of death at all, as if she had already realized and prepared herself mentally to face death.
The gallows on the stage is set up with a set of sophisticated mechanisms. The actor will put a prop hemp rope around his neck, and then there is a vertical wooden board behind him to support the actor's body to prevent real accidents.
This is not the first time the troupe has performed publicly.
All props were inspected before the show, including the gallows used to demonstrate the hanging process.
Two sturdy men playing soldiers picked up the actress playing Cordelia and roughly but carefully put a noose around her neck.
"Oh, my dear father, I hope that what I said has a magical medicine to heal the pain, so that before I die, I can heal the damage my two sisters have inflicted on you and your heart!"
Then a mechanical device was pulled to retract the standing pedal under the actress' feet.
The actress' feet were instantly off the ground, and the wooden board used for support behind her extended out from the background board behind her to support her body.
The audience in the audience was amazed at this scene. The realistic props and the tragic background music made the audience feel sad about this scene.
The actress on the stage had her hands tied behind her back and her legs kicking wildly in the air, as if she was really going to be hanged.
As time passed, she gradually stopped struggling, but her eyes rolled back and she stuck out her long tongue.
The male lead who was playing King Lear noticed something was wrong, but this was a public performance and there was no room to stop.
Two male actors playing the role of soldiers took the actress' body down from the gallows. They did not have any lines, but just silently did what was written in the script.
But the two men looked at each other when they took the actress down, and they also felt the abnormality of the actress at this time.
Based on past performance experience, the actress would put her hands on their shoulders, but at this time she did not react.
The audience in the audience silently admired the actress's professional acting skills. She could even play the real face of death so vividly.
The performance of the play continues, and the next scene is that the old King Lear holds Cordelia's body and cries and then goes crazy.
The two silent soldiers gently laid the actress' body flat on the ground, but she still did not react.
The male lead actor who played King Lear stepped forward and observed closely. He saw real marks of ligature on the actress' neck.
He knelt on the ground, hugged the actress, and cried bitterly,
"Oh, my Cordelia, why did you leave me like this? Leaving me, an old and helpless person, alone in this world!"
But his voice slowly began to tremble as he saw what was in the actress' eyes.
It was a dark green city, and a shadow large enough to cover the sky was hovering over the city.
That shadow was a monster, an existence that was completely incomprehensible to humans.
One can vaguely see that He has a human outline, a pair of broken and deformed wings like a bat, an octopus-like head with many tentacles, and a liquid that makes one's scalp tingle and makes one feel physically uncomfortable, all over his body, like a jelly-like substance covering fish scales.
The bloated and obese bodies and the huge green bodies stood up from the city, like the giants in Greek mythology awakening from the earth.
Everything in the picture was trembling, as if it was terrified by His majesty.
His existence makes people feel fear when they think of it, even beyond fear.
The oldest and strongest emotion of human beings is fear, and the oldest and strongest fear is the fear of the unknown.
A sentence suddenly appeared in the male protagonist's mind.
"He is still alive, stirring in his deep sleep, and we pray to you and beg you to answer our prayers.
Let us warn our lost brethren to be prepared for the great being that is sleeping in R'lyeh to awaken.
We know nothing, we dedicate our fresh lives to the great Cthulhu, we dedicate ourselves to the great Cthulhu!"
The male protagonist's heart was filled with panic at this moment. He no longer cared whether the actress in his arms was alive or dead. He only knew that he was very close to death.
Yellowish and smelly liquid flowed out from under his body, and he looked extremely destitute and haggard.
This is not acting, but the helplessness of human beings in the face of great existence.
Even though he only saw a vague shadow, the male protagonist's heart was severely traumatized.
The audience still just thought it was part of the performance and didn't take it seriously, but gradually some people realized something was wrong.
"Should there be a line at this time?"
Effie frowned and asked Ketchlov.
"Um?"
Ketchlov was thinking, and just now he sensed a strange fluctuation.
Different from the ethereal, illusory and evil power of the Yellow Group, that power was filled with a wet feeling like the tide, and even had a faint fishy smell of fish and shrimp.
It was the breath of the ocean, but it was not the same ocean as the one overflowing with life; it was an ocean of decay and death.