Theatre special: the puppets of ‘My Neighbour Totoro’ and the Beckett Biennale 

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  Hello and welcome to Monocle On Culture.

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  I'm Robert Bound.

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  This week we're arriving early, finding our seats and getting ready to take umbrage.

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  If anyone dares to shuffle or cough.

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  Yes, that's right, we're at the theatre.

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  Well, kind of.

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  We might also be walking a couple of miles in the mud to find an Anthony Gormley tree and windswept.

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  Stop there to watch an al fresco performance of Samuel Beckett.

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  On today's show, we're looking at two very different theatrical worlds.

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  First up, we'll sit down with the puppeteer and owner of a quite fabulous name,

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  and that is Basil Twist.

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  Then we'll catch up with Sean Doran,

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  formerly the director of the English National Opera and now the artistic director of Arts Over Borders.

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  He's leading the charge with a major new Samuel Beckett Biennale and a rather extraordinary multi decade production of one Beckett play.

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  First up, the 1988 film My Neighbor Totoro is a beloved,

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  magical, fantastical film from Tokyo's Studio Ghibli.

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  In recent years, it was adapted for the stage by playwright Tom Morton Smith,

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  and that production has just come back to London's Gillian Lynn Theater.

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  There, audiences witness the technically complex, beautifully made puppets made by Basil Twist,

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  a puppeteer who's previously worked with the Royal Ballet and Kate Bush.

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