The RSC’s most ambitious project to date — even more so than the award-winning theater company’s original productions of musicalsnow has creatives working on it at bases in London, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Los Angeles and Tokyo.
The puppets being built at Creature Shop are based on designs created by Basil Twist, one of the UK’s most innovative puppeteers. Mervyn Millar, of Britain’s cutting-edge Significant Object puppet studio — it created puppets for the National Theatre production ofMy Neighbour Totoro ”Whether an audience member is a longtime fan of this iconic story, or new to Miyazaki’s fantastical world, they will be simply amazed when they see these magical creatures live on stage in a whole new way inJohn Criswell, animatronics supervisor at Jim Henson’s Creature Shop in Los Angeles, working on RSC’s “My Neighbour Totoro”The show will have an initial run of 15 weeks at London’s Barbican, with performances from October 8 through January 21, 2023.
is being executive produced by Hisaishi with the RSC in collaboration with Improbable and Nippon TV’s Live Events operation.
Very excited about this one, TheRSC!
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