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Studio Ghibli’s work ‘like Shakespeare’, says My Neighbour Totoro stage show’s director
Hayao Miyazaki’s animations praised by Phelim McDermott as new production in West End announced
The work of Studio Ghibli’s Hayao Miyazaki should be considered as remarkable and timeless as Shakespeare’s First Folio, according to the director of the hit stage adaptation of My Neighbour Totoro, which is returning to the West End next year. Photograph: Manuel Harlan/RSC with Nippon TVMcDermott led the Royal Shakespeare Company’s stage adaptation of the 1988 animation about two girls – Satsuki and Mei – who are befriended by a forest spirit (Totoro) when their mother becomes ill. Miyazaki’s Oscar-winning last film, The Boy and the Heron, broke box-office records in China, topping $100m, while Cannes announced that Studio Ghibli would be presented with – the first time a collective has received such an award.
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