Gulliver’s Travels, written at the beginning of the 18th century by the Anglo-Irish author Jonathan Swift, has come down to us as a children’s tale. The largely amputated original text was nevertheless a summit of political and social satire.
At the Théâtre de l’Athénée in Paris, the duo Valérie Lesort and Christian Hecq, passionate about theater and puppets, adapt one of Gulliver’s journeys. The story of this marine surgeon, the only survivor of a shipwreck, stranded on the island of Lilliput where live very small inhabitants: the Lilliputians.