My five year old wanted me to draw him a vampire he could colour in, so I drew him this Nosferatu.

‘The UK’s Twin Peaks’ just about sums it up. I didn’t realise how weird the place was until I left.

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 ☂️

I love this man.

dear playwright, why is your play six hours?

Writing is often just trying to find motivation amongst the rejection.

West End crossover! #theatresky 🎭👸🏻🌱🇯🇵

Happy Halloween from Gavin

writers, your spoooky costume has arrived

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:

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:

✨ #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

"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

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

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 💚

My Neighbour Totoro extends in the West End! Book your tickets for 2026 here: www.totoroshow.com #TheatreSky

Seven years.

Oh this is amazing. This is the book I’m currently reading (and greatly enjoying).

Three years of magic and joy. 💚

British.

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

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.

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

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. 💚

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

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

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.

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.”

Adventures in vintage Lego: siege tower.

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

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.

In London, hate will never win.

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

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

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

Good morning from Gavin.

Yattah! #MyNeighbourTotoro celebrated its 200th performance last night at the Gillian Lynne Theatre. ☺️ Have you joined us in our neighbourhood yet? 💚 #FindYourSpirit

Adventures in vintage Lego.

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

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

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...

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

“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

A sign our holiday is over.

New image released of Trump leaving the White House this morning.