MY NEIGHBOUR TOTORO

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.

Cast and Creatives

Victoria Chen as Mei

Ami Okumura Jones as Satsuki

Dai Tabuchi Tatsuo

Jacqueline Tate as Granny

Ai Ninomiya as the Singer

Phyllis Ho as Yasuko

Steven Nguyen as Kanta

Jamie Zubairi as Hiroshi

Deanna Myers as Tsukiko

Matthew Leonhart, Heather Lai, Shaofan Wilson, Anna Kato, Rachel Clare Chan, Sally Cheng, Sabrina Pui Yee Chin, Victor Itang, Gabriel S Janoras, Ronnie Lee, Kumiko Mendl, Annakanako Mohri, Richard Peralta, Lucy Park and Chloe Ragrag

Performance Times:

Tuesday-Saturday 7pm

Thursday, Saturday & Sunday 2pm

Duration of Performance:

2 Hours and 40 minutes including an interval

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Gillian Lynne Theatre

Travel Details

GILLIAN LYNNE THEATRE can be found near to the districts of Covent Garden and Holborn and is equally serviced by both tube stations.

Tubes:

Holborn (5 minutes’ walk)
Covent Garden (5 minutes’ walk)
Charing Cross - tube and mainline station (10 minutes’ walk)

It is within the Congestion Charge Zone (7am until 6pm). The nearest car parks are Parker Mews, Covent Garden, London WC2B (1 minute walk) and 1 Museum Street, Covent Garden, London WC1A (2 minutes walk ). Alternatively the nearest Q Park scheme is located at 20 Newport Place WC2H 7PR London (10 minutes’ walk).

Gillian Lynne Theatre
166 Drury Lane London WC2B 5PW