The performance is for viewers aged 8 and over.
Language: Polish
Subtitles: English
After the performance there will be a meeting with the creators.

Gulliver’s Travels, based on Jonathan Swift’s masterpiece and directed by the acclaimed theatre-maker Krzysztof Garbaczewski, is a story about confronting alterity and finding acceptance and tolerance within untamed new worlds. Garbaczewski reimagines the novel with real brilliance, sharpening its satirical edge. Through the lens of a fairy tale, he speaks directly to our modern reality. By staging this unique adaptation, he asks a fundamental question: how do we find our place in an unfamiliar environment?

The creative team invites audiences to experience a contemporary reimagining of this literary classic that fully embraces cutting-edge technology. The stage will be shared by striking puppets designed by Aleksandra Wasilkowska and live-animated avatars.

The production plays with cutting-edge technology – spoiler alert: the inhabitants of Lilliput actually walk all over the hero and even leap right onto his hand. Here, AI in the service of theatre for young audiences works wonders; the digital tools prove to be far more than just a flashy gimmick, serving instead as a profound catalyst for the imagination.

Ultimately, it is a piece about how travel opens our minds. About how people vary from place to place, and how wonderful that diversity is. And about how ‘small’ and ‘big’ are, after all, entirely relative terms.
Rafał Turowski, turow.ski

Gulliver’s entire journey, with each of his distinct ports of call, is brought to life by the superb, evocative music of Qba Janicki, who reveals the full sonic breadth of percussion instruments. We hear both membranophones, driving the rhythm to conjure storms, surging waves, and gusts of wind, and the delicate textures of melodic idiophones, shaping the distinct atmosphere of each island.
Magdalena Figzał-Janikowska, teatralny.pl

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