Having originally premiered in 2022, the show based on the film will head to the Gillian Lynne Theatre from the 8th March 2025.
Executive producer Joe Hisaishi and the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), in collaboration with Nippon TV and Improbable, have announced that Studio Ghibli’s award winning My Neighbour Totoro will have a 34 week run at the Gillian Lynne Theatre.
The production, which was adapted by Tom Morton-Smith and directed by Improbable’s Phelim McDermott, won six Olivier Awards following its original run at the Barbican in 2022, where it returned for a run in 2023.
My Neighbour Totoro sees the audience entering a fantasy world of childhood and the transformative power of imagination as it follows one summer in the lives of sisters Satsuki and Mei.
While casting is yet to be announced, tickets for the newly announced run will open for priority bookers on Monday 29 April, with public booking from Friday 3 May.
The production features: production design by Tom Pye, costume design by Kimie Nakano, lighting design by Jessica Hung Han Yun, movement by You-Ri Yamanaka and puppetry design and direction is by Basil Twist. It also includes music from Hisaishi’s iconic score in a new orchestration by Will Stuart, performed live with sound design by Tony Gayle. Video design is by Finn Ross and Andrea Scott.