Tragic portrait of today’s society made again through dismantlement and distortion of a classic

The classic Gulliver’s Travels and director Kim Hyuntak meet in this performance. Dismantling the original text audaciously and provocatively, the director makes a tragic portrait of our society.

Introduction
Director Kim Hyuntak has firmly built his own artistic world with his experimental spirit provocatively and audaciously. He produced <Gulliverse> based on Jonathan Swift’s tale-like social satire Gulliver’s Travels with his extreme imagination, focusing on the novel’s first part: A voyage to Lilliput. In this performance, several young Gullivers face and collide with this world, as the vulnerable in society. Here, the director deals with different issues of today’s society by depicting the Gullivers who have fallen into the world inside their smartphone. The play won the 59th Dong-A Theater Awards in 2022 (category: best play).

Synopsis
The Gullivers fall asleep to ASMR and wake up to an annoying alarm. They watch a morning news interview and ballet video. They can’t live without their smartphone. They hurriedly go to work, play online games and invest in stocks. To survive in this world, these young people keep running and rowing their boat. Nevertheless, they are treated like useless parts of a machine in today’s society. But those of the older generation stay in their past glories and turn a blind eye to younger people who struggle to move forward.