Gulliver Returns

Dawn State Theatre Company
Written by Dan Coleman
After Jonathan Swift
 
A haunting new play about love, loss and the strangeness of today; inspired b​y Swift’s savage masterpiece Gulliver’s Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World.

This is a story about Lilith and Lemuel Gulliver. Lem is a man on a mission: tonight – assisted by his wife and at great personal cost to himself – he intends to reveal the horrifying truth of his adventures and in doing so save our savage species from itself. But Lil has her own mission of mercy to perform. No matter what the cost, she must find a way to drag this broken man back to reality.

First published in 1726, Swift’s ground-breaking satire is by turns raging, tragic and magical. In 2013 it was voted number three in the Guardian’s list of the hundred greatest novels ever written, and its profound influence on modern fiction looms large over many of the great dystopian novels of the 19th and 20th centuries, including Orwell’s 1984.
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Dawn State's new play digs deep into the heart of ​this sweeping epic to reveal the story of two people trying to ​fix themselves in a world far stranger than Swift could have imagined.
 
​Dawn State​ return to The Swallow Theatre following their sold-out performances of Kipling's The Man Who Would Be King in 2016​ ("Outstanding" ***** British Theatre Guide).

Find out more about Dawn State Theatre Company at dawnstate.co.uk

Saturday 22 September 2018 and Sunday 23 September 2018 - 7.30pm
Tickets : £13.50  Age guidance: 14+ (themes of grief and mental health)
75 minutes with no interval.
We are proud to be part of the 20th Wigtown Book Festival and all remaining tickets are being sold via their box office.
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