Gulliver Travels to Vietnam

ADGE and TNT Theatre Britain
presents

Gulliver’s Travels

by Jonathan Swift
directed by Paul Stebbings

Performances in English with Vietnamese subtitles

HANOI OPERA HOUSE
Wed 08 May 2013, 8 pm
–
HCMC OPERA HOUSE
10 and 11 May 2013, 8 pm
Fri 10 May 2013, 11 am

Ticket information below.

From ADGE:

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 thought of as a children’s story, but has never been anything of the sort! TNT 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 comic (even hilarious) and always thrilling. This is one of the greatest adventure stories, a travellers tale that is all the more exciting for being a fiction. It might even be described as the world’s first science fiction classic. The TNT production employs comedy, acrobatics, stilts, live music and razor sharp dialogue to explore Swift’s masterpiece and our own (collapsing?) world. TNT are probably the most popular international touring theatre, performing a dozen productions in forty countries on three continents this season, ranging from Shakespeare to contemporary dramas.

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

This production of GULLIVER travels across Europe and Asia for eight months visiting some 20 countries from Indonesia to Britain and Korea to Malta.

Tickets and Information:

Ticket prices: 600 000 VND for adults (night performance)/500 000 VND for adults (day performance)/300 000 VND for students pupils. Prices  are for ALL seats.

You can buy tickets:

In Hanoi: Box office, Hanoi Opera House, 1 Trang Tien, Hanoi

– Vietnam Performing Arts Centre, 6th Floor, 32 Nguyen Thai Hoc St., Hanoi . Tel.: (04) 3747 8658

In HCMC:  Box office at HCMC Opera House (left wing), No. 7 Công trường Lam Sơn, Dist. 1. Tel:(08)38299976. Mob: 0915 00 57 79

For more information, you can contact: VIETNAM PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE
(Dept. of Performing Arts – Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism)
6th Floor, 32 Nguyen Thai Hoc St., Hanoi
Tel/Fax : (+84-4) 3747 8658
Mobile: +84 (0) 915 005 779
Email: [email protected], www.adg-europe.com