Putting a bow on the anniversary weekend is taking Alasdair to see the most heartwarming thing you can possibly see in London, the stage adaptation of My Neighbour Totoro. I saw it when it was first staged at the Barbican, and they’ve had to do some adapting of the staging to fit the stage at the Gillian Lynn. It remains as magical as ever, fully captivated from the first puppet. Alasdair revealed to me about 5 minutes before it started that he’d never even seen the film (which, yes, we’ll remedy), and even he was enchanted. It’s also a lot of fun how much the puppeteers are keying the children in the audience in to how this all works, when they are and are not meant to be visible on stage, and trusting that it all works. It’s just great theatre!