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Totoro Stage Play Gets Autumn Poster Promotion Near London Waterloo Station

The posters pictured below, all close to the front of London's Waterloo station, are promoting the British stage version of Hayao Miyazaki's film My Neighbor Totoro. The Royal Shakespeare Company's play is currently running at the Gillian Lynne Theatre, near Holborn and Covent Garden stations, until March 29 2026.

As well as showing Totoro himself, several of the characters from the story can be seen in the posters, including the sisters Mei and Satsuki, their parents, and also the local boy Kanta and his grandmother.

Tom Morton-Smith (the stage play Oppenheimer) adapted the story, and Phelim McDermott (Akhnaten) directs the production. The play was made in collaboration with the English theatre company Improbable and Japan's Nippon TV.