Don't miss the theatrical event of 2025 as the record-breaking, award- winning My Neighbour Totoro transfers to London's West End.
Find your spirit with the return of the "awe-inspiring" (Time Out) production of Studio Ghibli’s My Neighbour Totoro, in collaboration with Improbable and Nippon TV. Following two rapturously received, sell-out runs at the Barbican, discover this five-star, ground-breaking "triumph" (Telegraph) at the Gillian Lynne Theatre from 8 March 2025.
Winner of six Olivier Awards, this "utterly beguiling" (The Stage) and “jaw- dropping” (Metro) staging of the celebrated 1988 animated feature film is brought to you by the Royal Shakespeare Company and Executive Producer Joe Hisaishi, and adapted by Tom Morton-Smith (Oppenheimer). Hailed as “a tender and remarkably beautiful show” (Financial Times), My Neighbour Totoro is an enchanting coming-of-age story exploring the magical fantasy world of childhood and the transformative power of imagination, as it follows one extraordinary summer in the lives of sisters Satsuki and Mei.
8th March, 2025
2nd November, 2025
743 reviews on Show-Score
By: Tom Morton-Smith, based on a story by Hayao Miyazaki
Director: Phelim McDermott
Choreography: You-Ri Yamanaka
Cast list: Mei Mac (as Mei Kusakabe), Ami Okumura Jones (as Satsuki), Dai Tabuchi (as Tatsuo), Jacqueline Tate (as Granny), Arina Ii (as Miss Hara), Andrew Futaishi (as Hiroshi), Ka Long Kelvin Chan (as Kanta), Emily Piggford (as Yasuko), Amanda Maud (as Nurse Emiko), Naomi Yang (as Tsukiko)
Design: Tom Pye
Costume: Kimie Nakano
Lighting: Jessica Hung Han Yun
Sound: Tony Gayle
Other info: Puppetry by Basil Twist, Jim Henson's Creature Shop, Mervyn Millar; music by Joe Hisaishi; orchestrations by Will Stuart
Location: West End
Railway station: King's Cross St Pancras
Bus numbers: (High Holborn) 134, 242; (Kingsway) 1, 59, 68, 91, 168, 171, 188, 243, 521, X68
Night bus numbers: (High Holborn) 242, N68, N207; (Kingsway) 188, 243, N1, N91, N171
Car park: Drury Lane, Parker Street (1min)
Directions from tube: (5mins) Go right on Long Acre; turn left at Drury Lane and you’ll see the theatre 100 metres away on a corner.
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