| Announcement | To everyone here, the play will be starting shortly. |
| Izumi | ...... |
| In the end, we've arrived at the real thing with Masumi still stubbornly refusing to put in adlibs......There's no problem with the production, but I wonder about the audience's reception......) |
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| Izumi | ...... |
| (Next is the last scene......The scene with Alice and the Professor.) |
| Professor | "What you couldn't see was golden leisure. Your moratorium is only for now. I think you should enjoy yourself well." |
| Alice | "I'll take that into consideration." |
| Professor | "Oh, you're rather straightforward." |
| Alice | "Because I'll pass on the tea from now on." |
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| Audience Member A | That was interesting! The costumes were cute! |
| Audience Member B | It was awesome! Masumi-kun was cute too! |
| Izumi | ...... |
| (Nobody made any major mistakes, and they were able to do things as per practice. For the time being, for the first day, that's a passing mark.) |
| (But as Yuzo-san pointed out, Masumi-kun and Itaru-san's acting is going to waste after all.) |
| (The others should definitely be able to polish things until the final performance too.) |
| (For that purpose, too, it'd be good if Masumi-kun and Itaru-san could take the lead first and pull them along......) |
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| Tsuzuru | Ah, a review's been posted on a theatre site. |
| Izumi | Eh? Which site. |
| Tsuzuru | Look, here. |
| Sakuya | I want to look, but I'm scared to look. |
| Citron | They've written that it was weird that the Cheshire Cat spoke in human language when it was a cat! |
| Sakuya | Ehh!? That's!! |
| Citron | It's a joke! |
| Sakuya | That scared me...... |
| Tsuzuru | "......In the second play from MANKAI Company's Reborn Spring Troupe, they escape the amateur feel of their debut play, showing stability." |
| Sakuya | Really!? |
| Citron | We were praised! |
| Izumi | There is a sense of stability, but...... |
| (To put it another way, that's like saying there's no variation, that it's always the same. We haven't brushed up on anything at all since the first day.) |
| (There might be people who are okay with that, but a lack of playing around is linked to being boring. The audience won't be drawn to come to the next play.) |
| (As I thought, we have to do something......) |
| ......Can you call Itaru-san and Masumi-kun? Let's have a meeting. |
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| Izumi | Everyone's here, right? |
| Half the plays are over, and we have a rest day tomorrow before we get to the latter half, so let's look back at the performances up until now and use that for the latter half. |
| Masumi | ......Got it. |
| Itaru | OK. |
| Izumi | Yuzo-san said it too, but throughout the plays so far, I get the feeling there's been a lack of playfulness and variety. |
| Of course, it's not all about the audience members who come to watch several times over, so that's fine, but...... |
| I wonder if we're giving the impression that we're conservative and boring. |
| It's already come up several times, but in particular, I think Masumi-kun and Itaru-san's acting could be better. |
| Masumi | ...... |
| Itaru | ...... |
| Izumi | What do you all think? Isn't there anything you've realised while acting together? |
| Tsuzuru | Hmm......I wonder if the Hatter tries to converse with Alice too much. |
| The Hatter is relaxed and goes at his own pace, so I thought Itaru-san would be more into it, but....... |
| It might be that Itaru-san is thinking of doing things proactively, but that's having the opposite effect. |
| Itaru | ...... |
| Sakuya | On the other hand, I think Masumi-kun is too unmatched with Itaru-san's acting. |
| To Alice, the Hatter is the key to returning to the real world, yet he seems completely uninterested. |
| That might be why it looks like the Hatter alone is fruitlessly trying and getting nowhere. |
| Tsuzuru | Ahh, that's true. That might be it. |
| Citron | Two complete opposite, huh. Like miso and fried tofu. |
| Tsuzuru | If you're saying that, it's 'like oil and water'. They're not miso soup. |
| Though, that said, there are plenty of issues with us too. |
| Sakuya | It's not just Masumi-kun and Itaru-san who are the problem. |
| Izumi | Is there anything you want to say as the leader, Masumi-kun? |
| You can say anything you've noticed. |
| Tsuzuru | Let's fix what we can fix and keep on improving in the latter half. |
| Masumi | In the first act ――. |
| No, never mind......Everyone's doing well. |
| Izumi | Eh? |
| Tsuzuru | ......Really? |
| Sakuya | Masumi-kun, are you really saying that? |
| Masumi | Yeah. |
| Tsuzuru | Conversely, that's freaky... |
| Sakuya | It's too different from the debut play. |
| Citron | I said "graduate failure yellow" in the second matinee! |
| Tsuzuru | That's a great self-assessment, but we really did well to continue acting over that, you know!? |
| Sakuya | It's the result of mishearing. |
| Izumi | (Masumi-kun has been strange since the start of this play.) |
| (Rather than working hard as the leader, it just looks like he's forcefully suppressing his own feelings.) |
| Itaru | ...... |
