More and more people came.
Among them, there are basic producers responsible for mining, logging, and breeding, manufacturing workers engaged in steelmaking, shipbuilding, etc., as well as government affairs office clerks, general school teachers, research mages, and other Starwind leaders engaged in different professions. .
They came here today because the Blackcliff-Starwind City Theater Company's first two auditions were an unprecedented success.
Captain Umberto's deeds have been widely circulated, but this is the first time it has been adapted into a live-action drama.
When the troupe finished setting up the venue, it was completely dark.
The audience stood shoulder to shoulder, foot to foot, forming an arc around the stage in the center of the square. However, because the structure of the square was stepped, the audience who came a little late came and stood in the back row. You can also see performances.
The huge popularity shocked the staff of the troupe, and also put great pressure on the actors who had little performance experience.
In order to appropriately lower the audience's expectations, Ms. Lian Na, the founder of the Black Cliff-Starwind City Joint Theater Company, had to make some explanations before the performance began.
Under the pitch-black sky, all the shops and institutions around the square extinguished their lights in unison. Only the stage in the center of the square shone like a candle in the endless darkness under the illumination of the projector.
Liana standing in the audience is a brown-haired lady with a pretty face, but wrinkles can already be seen between her eyebrows. Because she is not the protagonist today, she does not wear the colorful clothes she usually wears when she plays and sings in bars, but wears simple clothes. black dress.
"The Exotic Land Development of Vegetable-Growing Skeletons"
Lian Na has participated in many performances before, but as the leader of the troupe, today she felt nervous for a long time.
Under the bright spotlight, she walked slowly onto the stage, bowed slightly, stood up straight and said loudly:
"Dear residents, good evening!"
There was a round of applause from the audience.
"Today is a quiet night. Please allow me to express my gratitude to everyone. After a hard day's work, I still came all the way by carriage to watch this performance at Morning Star Square. But as the founder of the troupe, I must stand up and do Some necessary clarifications.”
"I was once a successful bard. I have been to almost all large and medium-sized cities in the empire, and I have also gone to the Emerald Ocean to learn singing skills from the coral witch with a snake-tailed body of Hasima," Lina said with a gentle smile. "I thought I would always be like this, spending the rest of my life in feasting bars and aristocratic courts where I was invited to perform."
"Until I was imprisoned in the slave camp of Talengard, I still had such a dream. My piano was destroyed together with the entire city. Under the oppression of fallen humans, I worked day and night in the sulfur mines and suffered Inhumane abuse, but no one came to help.”
The audience in the audience listened with rapt attention. Many of them had similar experiences.
"Before I was tortured to death by demons and fallen humans, it was Captain Umberto who led a team to raid the mine and rescued me. Since then, I have become a resistance fighter." Her right hand, which once held a sword, was loose. He held it again and again, and the rough calluses on his palms have not been completely eliminated until now.
"After returning to Starwind City, I picked up my singing skills again and was fortunately recognized and welcomed by everyone. However, I often wonder if I can use my talents to do more in this glorious city. Some? Show more light and heat? Just like Captain Umberto, dedicate everything you have? "
"This is for this purpose. I formed the Black Cliff-Star Wind City Joint Theater Company. Now, our actors do not have enough performance experience, and the musicians and lighting engineers lack of training," Lian Na said with a smile on her face. Apologize, "This play is our audition work. I didn't expect it to get such attention. What I must say here is that as a start-up theater troupe, our level is very limited, and there will inevitably be some mistakes and flaws. I hope Don’t have such high expectations, please bear with the actors!”
There was a sound of support from the audience.
"Although our troupe has shortcomings of one kind or another, I guarantee that everyone in the troupe will do their best to give everyone a sincere performance!"
Facing the applause from the audience, Lian Na bowed slightly and expressed her gratitude again, then opened her arms and said in high spirits: "I would like to dedicate this performance to Captain Umberto and all the heroes of the Star Wind Leader!"
Amid the applause and cheers of the audience, Lian Na walked off the stage, walked into the darkness aside, and walked to the middle of the band.
The violinist was a young dark elf. He plucked the strings with his slender fingers. Beside him, other musicians also started playing.
The moving opening music gradually overwhelmed the noisy voices and became the only sound in the square.
To the sound of low drums, the fat cook who played "Blood Pay" O'His and the young officer who played Dewey walked onto the stage.
Outside the slave camp.
"Philip", the leader of the Sons of Demon Chapter, was chopped down to the ground by Osis's sword.
"Dewey" said in shock: "The blood reward information saved countless lives, and you just killed him! You devil! Scum! Traitor! You will be engraved on the pillar of shame!"
The fat general "Osis" pinched his waist and straightened his chest, pointed at himself and said: "You didn't expect it, I am the blood reward, the blood reward is me!"
Although Osis's lines and acting skills were very exaggerated, and his deeds were known to the audience in advance, there was still a cry of exclamation from the audience.
Osis went to Talengard alone. According to the screenwriter's imagination, he died in the city after a fierce battle with the devil.
The lights go out and the scene changes.
The voice-over played by Lena sounded, and props and actors entered the scene.
While the demons were fighting with each other, the survivors who escaped from the Talengard slave camp successfully reunited with the rescuers from Starwind City.
On the open wasteland, a mighty convoy of carriages was moving.
An army of demons follows and is about to devour the convoy.
The audience's hearts twitched.
A strong middle-aged actor came to the stage to wait.
He wore a pair of old ranger armor, his face was painted with oil paint by the Dark Elf Master of Disguise, and his gray beard was attached to his chin with sticky glue, making him look really fierce like Emberto.
However, what others don’t know is that his job is a blacksmith in an ordnance factory. The long sword on his waist was even made by himself. The combat boots under his feet were borrowed from students at the military academy. The number is too large and must be returned after the performance.
Trumpets sounded and drums rumbled.
The thrilling chase is taking place on the stage.
Countless spectators are looking forward to his appearance.
The blacksmith actor stepped onto the stage steps nervously. He began to complain in his heart that the boots did not fit properly and began to regret why he had participated in this performance.
Umberto is everyone's hero, but what should he do if his performance fails and his image as a hero is insulted?
Just a few steps, the blacksmith felt so long.
But in the end, he stood at the edge of the stage, just a step away from the bright lights.
The chase battle that almost swallowed up countless lives was played out in front of his eyes.
He had heard about Umberto's deeds many times. As a man, he couldn't help but admire and admire such a hero.
"It's an honor to play you."
The blacksmith put his thick fingers on the scabbard, and all the tension and regret suddenly disappeared, and the audience also faded out of the audience.
He seemed to have traveled through time and space in an instant, arrived at the scene of Talengard's evacuation, and entered the body of Umberto who was about to turn his horse around.
Behind the convoy, demons howled.
The slaves escaped with great difficulty, but they could not escape the fate of being killed by the devil.
At this moment, only he can turn the tide, but the price is his own life.
"Umberto" took a step forward, walked into the shining spotlight, and walked into the sight of countless viewers.
He unsheathed his sword and strode between the convoy and the demon, his heavy footsteps rumbling.
"Demons! Come and fight! I am the Emberto you are looking for!"
"Do you want a reward from the Demon Lord? Come and get my head!"
Amid the exclamations of the audience, the demon mercilessly knocked him down.
But the "convoy" has already exited the stage, symbolizing that the evacuation team has returned safely to Starwind City.
The blacksmith closed his eyes and lay quietly in the center of the stage.
His performance ended there, but the lights did not go out and he had to continue playing the hero's corpse.
But, why is there no sound at all outside?
Under the spotlight-lit stage, the whole place was silent.
The blacksmith lying on the ground was upset.
His poor acting skills must have ruined the scene!
Just when the blacksmith was feeling extremely regretful, several crisp applauses rang out.
Gradually, these crisp sounds woke up other audience members, and thunderous applause gradually broke out from the audience!
Only then did the blacksmith know that the performance was a great success!
