Chapter 206 Harold: I've seen a mermaid
Two hours passed quickly amidst the sound of dance and music. At the end of the performance, the queen played by Nilu and the guard played by another actor stood on the high tower on the second floor of the stage and waved to the audience.
The lights focused on them, and the audience spontaneously shouted loudly, calling "Alia" and "Mutasim" louder and louder, mixed with the voices calling "Nilu".
The cheers of more than a hundred people were particularly loud in the closed theater, and even Nilu on the stage was frightened. She almost thought that these were really the loyal people of the desert shouting for the birth of a new king.
But once she is on stage, she can collect her thoughts, empty herself and play her role wholeheartedly.
So all the audience could see was the woman in the gorgeous dress with a confident and calm smile on her face, waving her hand gracefully, the gold ornaments on her body sparkling under the light, and the originally cheap yellow gauze also looked radiant and colorful.
She maintained this posture until the slowly closing curtain completely obscured her figure.
The lights in the theater lit up one by one, but the applause lasted for a long time. Half of the audience were still immersed in the atmosphere of enthusiasm, solemnity, happiness and many other atmospheres, with faces full of desire.
The audience members with darker skin in the theater either clapped and cheered loudly with all their might, or shed tears silently.
Kavi watched Aisha, who was sitting next to him, clapping. Suddenly, two lines of tears slid silently down his face to his mouth. He frantically looked for paper, but Aisha raised her sleeves to wipe her tears as if she didn't notice at all, and then continued to clap.
The three of them followed the crowd out of the theater in silence, and walked out of Baoshang Street along the way they came. Kavi then exhaled a breath and said in a relaxed tone:
“The performance just now was so wonderful, even better than I imagined! Before I came here, I didn’t expect the prop master to actually build a castle!
Just listening to the record certainly won’t give me the same shocking feeling as before, so I said if I have time, I should watch more live performances!”
"Well, the story flows smoothly, the lyrics are well-written, the actors sing clearly, and there is nothing wrong with the costumes and props.
The use of lighting is a major breakthrough. Is this the first time that Xumi’s theater uses beautiful voice and lighting?
I feel that the tickets for the Zubair Theater's upcoming performances will be hard to get, but fortunately, Senior Kawi bought three tickets right after the pre-sale, otherwise we might not be able to see the live performance." Harold said with a smile.
"Senior, you have foresight!" Kavi raised his head and said proudly,
Then he looked at El Haisen, "El Haisen, don't be so serious, isn't the performance wonderful? After watching the whole show, you don't have any feelings at all?"
Harold also looked over and said, "The feeling should be 'I was careless. I didn't expect the lights in the theater to be turned off. I thought I could read a book for the whole show.'"
Elhaisen chuckled. "Indeed, I underestimated the importance the theater attached to this performance. I didn't consider that the open-air theater would set up a tent to prepare for the performance. I miscalculated."
Just as Kavi was about to say something, Elhaisen continued, "My feeling is that letting Miss Nilu play the leading role will naturally attract a large number of audiences and serve as a silent promotion for subsequent performances in other theaters.
From the perspective of the theater manager, it is a better choice to give one of the main roles to Miss Nilu than to take the risk of a performance that has been planned for a long time and invested a lot of money to end in failure.
In the theater just now, 80% of the audience wanted to see the stars of Zubair Theater, which is why the tickets were sold out immediately after they were released.
But considering the content of the script and the character setting, letting a light-skinned rainforest person play the role of the desert queen is bound to attract a lot of opposition. "
"Why do you always think the worst? It can't be that bad, right?
You saw what happened just now. The mercenaries all liked the performance. Miss Aisha, who was sitting next to me, was so moved that she shed tears!" Kavi said with a frown.
"Once one of them thinks of this, things will be different." Elhaisen said calmly, "Of course, the best outcome is that the desert people can think of a deeper level.
Why would a theater that is willing to recruit desert people and promote their culture make such an arrangement?
If it was discrimination or teasing, the theater manager would not have needed to hire desert people to rehearse new shows in the first place. Zubair Theater had no shortage of audiences.
If he only cared about the script, he wouldn't have to train a group of desert actors from scratch. Recruiting actors from the rainforest could save a lot of training costs.
The vast majority of people who have the leisure to go to the theater to watch opera are rainforest people, and they will not protest to the theater if the person on the stage is not a desert person. "
"That's right, so we need to tell the mercenaries the theater manager's thoughts before anyone causes trouble," said Harold.
He had seen black mermaids in his previous life, and he knew that if things got out of hand, it would be difficult to resolve.
"Then let's tell Senior Setale about this tomorrow night," said Kavi.
El Haisen: "We can't let Miss Setale do this. In the eyes of the desert people, she is on the side of the Order.
And she is the assistant of the sage. For her, frequent contact with mercenaries represents a risk. Do you want her to be locked up?"
"Let's leave it to my assistant." Harold exhaled and said with a smile, "Miss Dixia is very prestigious among the mercenaries. All the mercenaries are willing to listen to her words."
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The castle, inside Harold's newly built student dormitory
Take out a bottle of medicine labeled "Green Vitriol Oil (H2SO4)" from the wooden cupboard.
The second page of the notebook recorded this potion and its preparation method. He successfully made this potion, which had never appeared in Teyvat, by using the simplest "dry distillation of gallstone (copper sulfate pentahydrate)".
The notes said that this potion was highly corrosive, so he was extremely careful when handling it.
On his laboratory table were placed sinks, catheters, alcohol lamps and other items. These experimental tools had been assembled in advance.
Radu prepared to mix this potion with industrial alcohol - he now knew that the chemical formula of alcohol was C2H5OH - to produce a gas with the chemical formula C2H4.