Tom Morton-Smith
@tommortonsmith.com
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Writer My Neighbour Totoro @ Gillian Lynne Theatre, London. tommortonsmith.com totoroshow.com
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My new radio play, ‘The Wind in the Willows: a Weasel’s Tale’ - narrated by the legend that is Penelope Wilton, will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 at 3pm on 16th November. Details here:
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BBC Radio 4 - Drama on 4, The Wind in the Willows: A Weasel’s Tale
Kenneth Grahame's classic reimagined from the margins. Narrated by Penelope Wilton.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002m96p
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My five year old wanted me to draw him a vampire he could colour in, so I drew him this Nosferatu.
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‘The UK’s Twin Peaks’ just about sums it up. I didn’t realise how weird the place was until I left.
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‘It seemed like quite a do’: why East Grinstead hosts one of Scientology’s glitziest evenings
Last week, 7,000 people – including Tom Cruise – descended on the West Sussex town for an event that divides local opinion
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/09/east-grinstead-hosts-scientology-uk-headquarters-event-tom-cruise
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The WhatsOnStage
#WOSAwards
Nominations are open! 🤗
#MyNeighbourTotoro
is eligible for: 🌱 Best West End Show 🌱 Best Takeover Performance: ✨ Victoria Chen ✨ Phyllis Ho ✨ Kumiko Mendl ✨ Deanna Myers ✨ Steven Nguyen ✨ Shaofan Wilson ✨ Jamie Zubairi
awards.whatsonstage.com
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I love this man.
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Caridad Svich
4 days ago
dear playwright, why is your play six hours?
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Writing is often just trying to find motivation amongst the rejection.
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West End crossover!
#theatresky
🎭👸🏻🌱🇯🇵
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Jen Tan
9 days ago
Happy Halloween from Gavin
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Paines Plough
10 days ago
writers, your spoooky costume has arrived
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My new radio play, ‘The Wind in the Willows: a Weasel’s Tale’ - narrated by the legend that is Penelope Wilton, will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 at 3pm on 16th November. Details here:
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BBC Radio 4 - Drama on 4, The Wind in the Willows: A Weasel’s Tale
Kenneth Grahame's classic reimagined from the margins. Narrated by Penelope Wilton.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002m96p
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My new radio play, ‘The Wind in the Willows: a Weasel’s Tale’ - narrated by the legend that is Penelope Wilton, will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 at 3pm on 16th November. Details here:
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BBC Radio 4 - Drama on 4, The Wind in the Willows: A Weasel’s Tale
Kenneth Grahame's classic reimagined from the margins. Narrated by Penelope Wilton.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002m96p
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13 days ago
✨
#SecretsOfTheForest
: Satsuki's Tomato Prop 🍅 Did you know that the tomato Satsuki eats isn't really a tomato? Watch to find out how it's made! 😮🌱
#FindYourSpirit
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17 days ago
"When the spirits of forest like somebody... they let you see them" ☺️💚 A brand new look at the spirits of
#MyNeighbourTotoro
in newly released production photography. ✨ 📸 Manuel Harlan
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18 days ago
A magical offering from the forest! 🌱✨ Book early and save when you join us for one of our Acorn Performances, with seats available from £15.
bit.ly/3JijG1R
Have you met Totoro yet? 🤭
#FindYourSpirit
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The RSC
18 days ago
Together with Executive Producer Joe Hisaishi, in collaboration with Nippon TV and
@improbable1.bsky.social
, the multi-award winning stage adaptation of Studio Ghibli’s My Neighbour Totoro will extend its run in the West End until 30 August 2026 💚
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My Neighbour Totoro extends in the West End! Book your tickets for 2026 here:
www.totoroshow.com
#TheatreSky
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Seven years.
19 days ago
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Oh this is amazing. This is the book I’m currently reading (and greatly enjoying).
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Three years of magic and joy. 💚
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Zack Polanski
24 days ago
British.
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Jen Tan
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I have had a lovely time playing with actors this past couple weeks: last week running the
@newearththeatre.bsky.social
Liverpool Theatre Makers Academy and this week workshopping a beautiful and heartbreaking new play with
@tommortonsmith.com
. It’s been great & I’d like to do more of it soon please
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I spent the last couple of years pitching a stage adaptation of László Krasznahorkai’s The Melancholy of Resistance, but no one picked it up. Just putting it back out there now he’s got a Nobel.
about 1 month ago
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Bookshop.org
about 1 month ago
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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Behind the scenes
@totoroshow.bsky.social
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My Neighbour Totoro – go behind the scenes for the West End show
The spirits abound backstage!
https://www.whatsonstage.com/news/my-neighbour-totoro-go-behind-the-scenes-for-the-west-end-show_1697452/
about 1 month ago
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about 1 month ago
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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about 1 month ago
Guessing the puppeteer by their chicken sounds in
#MyNeighbourTotoro
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#FindYourSpirit
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I managed to go to a theatre and see a play! Well bloody (ha) done
@mogster.bsky.social
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about 1 month ago
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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.
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The Daily Tism
about 2 months ago
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.”
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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...
https://thedailytism.com/country-with-bullet-vending-machines-makes-preventing-autism-a-priority/
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Adventures in vintage Lego: siege tower.
about 2 months ago
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about 2 months ago
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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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.
about 2 months ago
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan
about 2 months ago
In London, hate will never win.
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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
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Quite proud of my artwork for today’s ’word of the day’.
about 2 months ago
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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
2 months ago
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Good morning from Gavin.
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Yattah!
#MyNeighbourTotoro
celebrated its 200th performance last night at the Gillian Lynne Theatre. ☺️ Have you joined us in our neighbourhood yet? 💚
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Adventures in vintage Lego.
2 months ago
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WIRED
2 months ago
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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I was interviewed for The Skylark about
@totoroshow.bsky.social
. Thoughts about craft, nature and childhood.
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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.
https://www.theskylark.org/post/tom-morton-smith
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Eliot Higgins
2 months ago
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...
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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’
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2025/sep/02/cooper-reeves-starmer-green-party-leader-badenoch-devolution-latest-updates?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-68b6b60a8f08e8bac2726f04#block-68b6b60a8f08e8bac2726f04
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This is where Starmer is right now and, aside from everything else, it feels distinctly un-British.
2 months ago
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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism
2 months ago
“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...
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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.
https://www.psychologicalscience.org/publications/observer/student-notebook-autistic-inertia-srinivasan.html?fbclid=IwY2xjawMjMh5leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHhxqlaNW7G9VkugKucSF9OsiNUqRoeG0iry-6U8cu1-eljiVXVsszRgToDtG_aem_aM7t9iZ6vdbWeUtPrftS_g
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Jen Tan
2 months ago
A sign our holiday is over.
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New image released of Trump leaving the White House this morning.
2 months ago
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