The audience was in darkness. At the same time, two white lights shot from the left and right sides of the auditorium toward the stage, converging in the middle of the red curtain, forming a moon-like aperture. The curtain slowly opened, and there was a cheerful commotion at the scene.

When the curtain completely spread out, a girl in a white dress on the side of the stage held a microphone in her hand, and was in the shadow of chasing light. It was Gong Chenghui, the granddaughter of Gong Yuanhe, chairman of Gong Media.

As soon as Gong Chenghui walked to the front of the stage, a voice suddenly popped up from the stage: "Ming Chenghui, you are the best, I will always support you."

After a burst of laughter, Gong Chenghui smiled and said, "It's OK, wait until you go to the backstage to get the money."

There was another burst of laughter, and a professor-like figure sitting in the front row turned sideways to another judge beside him, saying: "This girl reacts very quickly."

"Ming Yuanhe's granddaughter."

"Oh, no wonder."

After this little episode, Gong Chenghui began to formally host: "Dear Director Kang, leaders, judges, teachers, and dear classmates, good evening everyone!"

applause.

...

After a long list of clichés that I have to say whether I like to hear or not, I finally got to the point: "Tonight is the sixth game of the Vientiane Drama School PK Competition, "Romeo and Juliet" brought to you by the Academy of Literature and Arts. Please enjoy it."

After the report, Gong Seung-hui walked off the stage with her skirt in her arms. The chase light disappeared, and the stage fell into a brief darkness. Then the background music slowly rang out, and Gong Seung-hui's voice resounded through the entire auditorium again. It was the opening poem of "Romeo and Juliet":

The story takes place in the city of Verona,

There are two giants with similar families,

The old feuds of past lives have stirred up new struggles,

Blood tainted the citizens' hands.

It is fate that destiny destined these two enemies.

Born a pair of unfortunate lovers.

...

After this very modern poetic opening remark, a small audience appeared in the audience, but perhaps because Director Kang was in charge, they did not act too much. Obviously, this is the aftermath of the forum dispute.

The first scene of the main show began, and several young men in servant costumes came on stage with shields and swords. Everyone saw their costumes and props, and there was another laugh. When they heard their dialogue, half of the audience couldn't help laughing.

"As soon as I get angry, my sword will not recognize my relatives."

"But you don't always get angry."

"I got angry when I saw the dog from the Montague family."

...

This simple dialogue makes everyone feel that the actors on the stage are performing children's plays.

Seeing this scene, Sun Boya finally felt relieved. She didn't believe Ma Yiyi's words were the truth, and wisely judged that it was just a conspiracy by Ye Jue. She is now planning how to post on the gossip building to point out the collusion between Ye Jue, Kang Lingyue and Liu Jingting.

The idiot dialogue on the stage continued, and the actors were not affected by the audience's reaction at all. They were still devoted to speaking lines and making movements. As early as the beginning of the rehearsal, Director Liu Jingting told them that the background and costumes were not in line with traditional Chinese dramas. Therefore, when the audience first came into contact, there would definitely be an adaptation period. At this time, you must remain calm and do your best, because when the drama began, it was the time to introduce the audience into the scene step by step.

As Liu Jingting expected, the audience below had automatically changed into a complaint mode, watching a chat with the people around him.

"Where is the love drama that was agreed upon, the tissues are ready. Show me this?"

"So do they want to fight with real swords and guns?"

"Do you have to speak like this to show that you are a drama?"

Liu Jingting, sitting at the corner of the right area on the first floor, silently looked at the actors' every move on the stage, without any expression of joy and anger on his face. Instead, Kang Lingyue, who was sitting next to him, looked a little nervous. Her hands subconsciously clenched into fists and looked at Liu Jingting from time to time. Seeing his calm and calm face, she felt a little relaxed. When she reached the next peak of complaints, she fell into tension again, and repeated this.

After all, Kang Lingyue devoted so much to "Romeo and Juliet" and almost treated it as her own child.

The background music suddenly became compact and rapid, and the first conflict finally arrived. The two servants who had been arguing for a long time finally drew their swords to fight, and the audience's discussion was slightly suppressed.

Then, Benvolio, played by Wang Hang'an, appeared, drew his sword and separated the servants who fought each other. On Tibert, he said something different with Benvolio and fought together.

Next is the unified battle between servants and citizens.

...

In addition to creating the first conflict in the drama, the main purpose of this battle is to introduce the hatred between Capulet and Montague.

With the end of the fight, the male protagonist Romeo finally appeared. Xu Yuan's tall and handsome figure, coupled with a red noble outfit, was a little stunning. You could hear the girl's praise in the audience, or the girl and her boyfriend around her said in a fascination: "What will it look like if you wear that outfit?"

The boy's contrasting heart was aroused, and the first wave of substitution came successfully.

In addition, because Romeo appeared with a secret crush, he naturally had a melancholy temperament and a lyrical and poetic dialogue instantly suppressed the table. At this time, the audience gradually got into the role while talking and laughing.

Just as the male audience was indignantly competing with Xu Yuan's Romeo in their hearts, the heroine Juliet, wearing a silver jewelry and a white dress, appeared.

With its unique stage background, the music carefully selected by Liu Jingting and Kang Lingyue, the lighting changes that cut into the plot, this series of combinations made Juliet's appearance even more eye-catching.

"So beautiful, like an angel."

Someone sighed like this, and Liu Jingting leaned towards Kang Lingyue slightly, saying, "You should get full marks for your clothing choice."

Kang Lingyue smiled and said, "Of course."

After the male and female protagonists appeared together, the tone of the entire drama was set in the next half, and the audience's mentality also became the "to be seen" stage of "see how you act", which means that the real confrontation between the program and the audience has officially begun.

"Who is the lady holding the knight's hand?"

With this question of Romeo, the most classic and eternal scene in the history of artistic love in that world, followed by:

Romeo first met Juliet!

[Ah! The torch is far less bright than hers;

She hung brightly on the cheeks of the evening sky.

Like a dazzling bead ring in the ears of a black slave;

She is the pearl of heaven and landed on earth!]

Romeo's self-report still seems a bit exaggerated, and it is an authentic lyrical confession. A small group of people in the audience immediately burst into laughter, but this time it did not arouse everyone's resonance. To a certain extent, this line is very consistent with the environment presented on the stage.

Juliet, who is outstanding in appearance, is as beautiful as a fairy, and is so dazzling even in the crowd. Romeo's destiny is exactly in line with the infatuation he showed when he appeared.

At the dinner, Juliet was the well-deserved protagonist, and her encounter with Romeo also became the common love at first sight for both of them.

...

The next one is also the most important one in this drama, and it is also the second most repeated during rehearsals, because this scene needs to be determined by Romeo and Juliet, and it also draws the drama of the plot of the whole drama.

In order to ensure that this "suffering love" can be presented perfectly, Liu Jingting specially released Richard Clayderman's famous piano piece "Romeo and Juliet" in advance as the background music.

The ancient Roman castle low building is hung with colorful green leaves and red flowers. Juliet is still in the white dress, sitting on the ancient building, talking quietly and murmured to himself, accompanied by a gentle and sad piano tone. There is indescribable sorrow and helplessness in his tone.

"Romeo, Romeo! Why are you Romeo? Deny your father and abandon your name; maybe you don't want to do this, so as long as you swear to be my lover, I don't want my surname Capulet anymore."

Is the most loyal love the most loyal love given your surname and Is it like this?

The lover he fell in love with at first sight came from a family with a deep feud with him. Xu Yuan and Lin Xun, who were already in tune with each other, had been coordinating the lyrics day and night. After Liu Jingting explained and demonstrated more than a hundred times, they had already become the male and female protagonists in the play. This orchard meeting was presented to them most perfectly with the cooperation of the lighting artist and the piano music.

Liu Jingting, sitting in a dark corner, gently swayed his palm, and his head swayed slightly with the flow of background music.

At this point, most of the girls off the field have become involved in the show, and the previous ridicule and jokes can no longer form a scale. They occasionally appear, and it seems abrupt and embarrassing. In the end, they have to remain silent.

Kang Lingyue reciprocates and said to Liu Jingting: "It is also 100% if you choose the song well."

...

The "Finding Love" section was completed, and the whole drama became a stalemate. The subsequent monastery marriage became natural, but it was just a reasonable presentation of the deepening of the relationship between the two.

Then the plot suddenly turns, Romeo's friend was killed by Juliet's cousin. Romeo was angry and killed Juliet's cousin and was brutally expelled. Juliet received a proposal from another nobleman.

The relationship between the two was in a major crisis.

From marriage to murder, to expulsion, the tight-paced plot has completely captured the hearts of the audience, and everyone began to care about the relationship between Romeo and Juliet.

Juliet found the priest for help and got a bottle of fake death medicine. After drinking it, she would wake up in twenty-four hours.

The appearance of this plot made the heart-wrenching audience relax a little bit. Until the drama went on, Romeo received the error message, the sensitive audience had already smelled the scent of tragedy, and his heart, who had just relaxed, was tighter again.

The magnificent and sad symphony rang out at the right time, and Romeo roared: "This is something! Destiny, I curse you!" Then he bought a bottle of poison, ran to Juliet's tomb, and killed Count Paris under severe physical and mental pain.

The plot has now entered the biggest climax of the whole play!

The previously rushing and shocking large symphony came to an abrupt end. The piano piece that reached the heart sounded for the second time. In fact, the prelude just started and the audience had already sunk into it.

This is also a common method used in dramas and even film and television dramas. The same background music, used repeatedly properly, will not only not bore the audience, but will successfully arouse their corresponding emotions.

Because the same music has given them hints, when the music sounds, the plot is in the emotional part, and prepare the toilet paper and start crying.

Romeo dug up the tomb, and said a line in grief, despair, and drank the poison in his arms, kissed Juliet affectionately, and died.

As early as Romeo was drinking poison, a female audience member began to sob. When Juliet was unwilling to leave Romeo, she couldn't find the poison. Finally, she stabbed herself with a Romeo dagger and died in his arms, the audience was already crying.

Until death, life and death will follow each other.

This is the final theme of this drama.

The martial arts novel master Mr. Jin Yong once clearly stated that in countless years, the concept of family and country may disappear, but emotions will never disappear. It is the eternal theme of artistic works, and this is also one of the reasons why he is respected as the "Sage of Love".

The melodious and sad piano music flowed in the audience's ears, and a sad and beautiful love affair came to an end.

The couples who came hand in hand, nine out of ten pairs snuggled together unconsciously, and their girlfriends were either crying or were still silent in the plot and failed to recover.

The judges also seemed to have experienced a spiritual baptism and temporarily lost the ability to judge technically. They watched six dramas, which was the only one that made them feel like they were watching a drama, not calculating homework.
To be continued...