TNT Theatre Britain presents:

GULLIVER´s TRAVELS

Adapted from Jonathan Swift’s satire by Paul Stebbings and Phil Smith.

GULLIVER’S TRAVELS has been called the greatest satirical work ever written – in an age where the world once again seems to have turned upside down Swift’s caustic wit and irreverent honesty have never been more relevant.

GULLIVER’S TRAVELS is often debased as a children’s story, and has never been anything of the sort! TNT will rescue this literary masterpiece from the pygmies who tried to turn it into a juvenile entertainment and create a play that asks us the very mature questions that Swift was posing three hundred years ago: what is the moral basis of government? What is the value of money? What is the aim of science? And finally, when humans behave like vicious animals why should they be valued higher than beasts? Each of these questions is addressed by Swift in his travels to four different lands – not only Lilliput. TNT dramatise each of the four journeys and because satire is only sharp if it is contemporary, we naturally apply Swift’s critique to our own troubled world.

If the themes of GULLIVER’S TRAVELS are deeply serious the form is often comic and always thrilling. This is a great adventure story, a travellers tale that is all the more exciting for being a fiction. The production employs comedy, acrobatics, stilts, live music and razor sharp dialogue to explore Swift’s masterpiece and our own (collapsing?) world.

Director Paul Stebbings updates his highly successful 1996 production to challenge the modern audience and provide a sparkling evening of satire that promises to tickle the belly and trouble the mind…. Lilliput ahoy!

Expected duration: 1:45 hours, including 15 min. interval