Hayao Miyazaki's films Spirited Away The work doesn't have much to do with science, nor does its stage adaptation, which opened at the London Coliseum, but the latter impressed me with how this fantastical parallel-world tale explores connections with nature, language, and self-consciousness. It might be a bit of a stretch, but it also considers the role of the microbiome when the show's protagonist, Chihiro (pictured), begins to decline because her microbiome is not adapted to her new parallel world.
Director Miyazaki has always been interested in ecology, and…
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