先ほど書いたように、先週の火曜日の夜はお芝居「隣のトトロ」を見に行きました。一昨年かその前の年だったかにしばらく上演されていてお友達のお知り合いが出ておられるということもあり、日本のアニメが元になっているということもあり見に行きたいと思ったのですが、その時はもうチケットは売り切れていました。今回、また上演されているということで行ってみることに。ただ、アニメはそれほど興味がないので、隣のトトロももちろんそのタイトルは馴染みがありますしトトロの絵も見かけてはいますが、そのストーリーは知らないまま行きました。

As I wrote earlier, we went to see the play “My Neighbour Totoro” on Tuesday last week in London.  It was on here for a while last year or the year before and as someone our friends know is performing is in it and it is based on a very well-known Japanese animation we wanted to see it but all the tickets were sold out then.  We heard it was now on again with a longer run and it was easy to get tickets this time.  To be honest, I’m not that interested in animations so I didn’t even know the story, even though of course I knew of “My Neighbour Totoro” and I’ve seen the drawings of Totoro many times.

少し前に見に行った「千と千尋の神隠し」は日本で（多分）上映されていたお芝居のキャストで日本語で催され、英語のサブタイトルがついていましたが、こちらは英語で催されています。

“Spirited Away”, which we went to see last year was played in Japanese (I think the most of the cast was from Japan) with English subtitles but this one is being played in English (though the songs were in Japanese first followed by some sort of translated version and here and there some simple Japanese phrases were used).

正直なところ、前半はあまりストーリー性がなく子供役の２人が叫んでいる場面が長く、何が起こるわけでもなく、少し退屈に感じましたが、後半は楽しめました。

To be honest, there wasn’t much story in the first half and it was very slow, it felt like we were just watching 2 children (in the play) screaming and running around and we were a little bored but we enjoyed the second half more.

このお芝居を見て以来、「となりのトトーロ、トトーロ🎵」と頭の中でぐるぐるがしばらく止まらず困りました（笑）

After watching this play, I had an ear worm going “Tonari-no Totoro, Totoro 🎵” for a long time, which was quite annoying.