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