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Tom Morton-Smith

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Writer My Neighbour Totoro @ Gillian Lynne Theatre, London. tommortonsmith.com totoroshow.com

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Tom Morton-Smith @tommortonsmith.com · Jul 9

A new trailer for @totoroshow.bsky.social has just dropped. Your first good look at some of the incredible forest spirits that bring the show to life. 🌱💚🌳🐈🚌🌽 #theatresky

My Neighbour Totoro | 2025 London trailer

YouTube video by WhatsOnStage

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 21h

You made it halfway through the week *and* we still have free shipping? Sounds like the perfect time to treat yourself to a new book and support indie bookstores in the process. 📚

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Tom Morton-Smith @tommortonsmith.com · 19h

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totoroshow.bsky.social @totoroshow.bsky.social · 19h

Yattah! Get a glimpse at what our first Relaxed Performance of #MyNeighbourTotoro with Integrated BSL at the Gillian Lynne Theatre was like. 💚✨

#FindYourSpirit

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Tom Morton-Smith @tommortonsmith.com · 1d

We’re all walking around with the pain box from Dune in our back pocket.

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Behind the scenes @totoroshow.bsky.social

My Neighbour Totoro – go behind the scenes for the West End show

The spirits abound backstage!

www.whatsonstage.com

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totoroshow.bsky.social @totoroshow.bsky.social · 6d

In celebration of #BESEAHeritageMonth in September we heard from the voices within our Neighbourhood in a new series. 🏠✨

We asked the cast of #MyNeighbourTotoro what BESEA Heritage Month means to them and what it’s like to be part of the show. 💚

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totoroshow.bsky.social @totoroshow.bsky.social · 7d

Guessing the puppeteer by their chicken sounds in #MyNeighbourTotoro 🐓💚

#FindYourSpirit

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Tom Morton-Smith @tommortonsmith.com · 7d

I managed to go to a theatre and see a play! Well bloody (ha) done @mogster.bsky.social. 🧛🏻‍♂️

The proscenium arch of the Lyric Hammersmith theatre. Raggedy curtains projected with the word ‘Dracula’.

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Tom Morton-Smith @tommortonsmith.com · 11d

I love this so much. The relaxed performances are always so special. And the way Clare is integrated into the show, as a full part of the ensemble, is gorgeous to watch.

totoroshow.bsky.social @totoroshow.bsky.social · 11d

Welcome to our first Relaxed Performance of #MyNeighbourTotoro with Integrated BSL at the Gillian Lynne Theatre! ☂️✨

#FindYouSpirit

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The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 16d

Anti-autism campaigner, Karen Hoyland, 40, commented: “I love my child but I hate his autism. The other day I came home to find him lining up his guns, instead of playing with them like a normal kid.”

Country with bullet vending machines makes preventing autism a priority

Headline by Sarah Amero A country that distributes bullets like they’re chocolate bars has decided that eradicating autism is one of its top priorities, it has been reported. The USA, where you can p...

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Tom Morton-Smith @tommortonsmith.com · 19d

Adventures in vintage Lego: siege tower.

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totoroshow.bsky.social @totoroshow.bsky.social · 19d

We’re celebrating #ESEAHeritageMonth with our Totoro family at the Gillian Lynne Theatre! 💚

Honouring our stories, roots and the heritage that shape our company 🌳✨

#FindYourSpirit

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Tom Morton-Smith @tommortonsmith.com · 21d

The kid is asleep, my better half is out for the night - time to dust off the projector, the big screen and the super long hdmi cable. It’s Zatoichi time.

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 22d

In London, hate will never win.

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totoroshow.bsky.social @totoroshow.bsky.social · 23d

We're celebrating East and South East Asian (#ESEA) Heritage Month this September at #MyNeighbourTotoro!

Did you know our company represents 9 ESEA Nations? 💚

#ESEAHeritageMonth #FindYourSpirit

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Tom Morton-Smith @tommortonsmith.com · 28d

‘A Royal Affair’ with Alicia Vikander and Mads Mikkelsen maybe? Or ‘Corsage’ with Vicky Krieps?

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Tom Morton-Smith @tommortonsmith.com · 28d

Quite proud of my artwork for today’s ’word of the day’.

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Tom Morton-Smith @tommortonsmith.com · 29d

Just finished. The Moomin books, as read by Hugh Dennis, are an absolute joy. Even the saddest books in the series, such as this one. #booksky

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Tom Morton-Smith @tommortonsmith.com · Sep 5

Good morning from Gavin.

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totoroshow.bsky.social @totoroshow.bsky.social · Sep 4

Yattah! #MyNeighbourTotoro celebrated its 200th performance last night at the Gillian Lynne Theatre. ☺️

Have you joined us in our neighbourhood yet? 💚

#FindYourSpirit

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Tom Morton-Smith @tommortonsmith.com · Sep 2

Adventures in vintage Lego.

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WIRED @wired.com · Sep 2

Two solar storms have combined to produce spectacular auroras across parts of Europe and North America—and even more breathtaking views are forecast.

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Tom Morton-Smith @tommortonsmith.com · Sep 2

I was interviewed for The Skylark about @totoroshow.bsky.social. Thoughts about craft, nature and childhood.

Tom Morton-Smith: When you create something for children, you need to speak to something deeper than distraction

The Olivier award-winning playwright on childhood wonder, growing up, and why care and imagination still matter in an age of churn and automation.

www.theskylark.org

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · Sep 2

When centrists adopt far-right rhetoric, they don’t make themselves stronger. They make themselves look inauthentic, legitimise the far right, and shift the political debate onto terrain defined by their opponents.
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Cooper suggests asylum seekers could be moved into warehouses instead of hotels – UK politics live

Home secretary says government aims to ‘shrink the whole asylum system’ and is looking at ‘military and industrial sites’

www.theguardian.com

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Tom Morton-Smith @tommortonsmith.com · Sep 2

This is where Starmer is right now and, aside from everything else, it feels distinctly un-British.

Donald Trump being weird and creepy with a US flag.

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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · Sep 2

“Newton’s … law of inertia, tells us that an object at rest stays at rest, & an object in motion stays in motion, unless something intervenes. In daily life, autistic inertia echoes this: Starts, stops, & shifts can require disproportionate effort.”

www.psychologicalscience.org/publications... -SR

Student Notebook: The Physics of Autistic Inertia

Hari Srinivasan describes the difficulty autistic people face in starting, stopping, or switching tasks, as well as how to manage this feeling of “inertia” as a graduate student.

www.psychologicalscience.org

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