GULLIVER’S TRAVELS is one of the most significant and widely read
classics of English literature, and has been since its publication in
1726. George Orwell called it “one of the ten best books ever written”,
and on its original publication it was hailed as being “read from the
nursery to the houses of parliament”. TNT’s acclaimed version has the
same appeal, an entertaining adventure story as well as a profound
analysis of the human condition.
Jonathan Swift´s utopian satirical novel is often misinterpreted as a
children’s story but 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.
The production will be revived in 2026/27 and Gulliver will travel from
Estonia to Spain. Join us on the greatest fictional voyage, a voyage not
only to wild lands peopled with mad scientists and talking horses but
into our own selves.
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