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Adapted from the venerated Studio Ghibli film by Hayao Miyazaki, the British director John Caird’s stage iteration was first seen in Miyazaki’s native Japan in 2022 and has now traveled to the London Coliseum — the West End’s largest theater — where it runs through Aug. 24.

Dundee University archivist Kenneth Baxter said the Caird Hall followed a long period where Dundee had been keen to rebuild its city centre.

The area now occupied by the Caird Hall was a warren of old buildings, which Kenneth said were not appreciated for their potential historical value.

But one of the most notable moments in the Caird Hall's history took place outside when it was transformed into Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet building for the 1983 BBC drama An Englishman Abroad.

In 2012, the Dalai Lama spoke at the Caird Hall, saying afterwards: "Today my blood pressure is good, which must be a blessing of being in Scotland."