Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on December 2013
Jonathan Swift’s 1726 novel Gulliver’s Travels is reimagined as a dreamy theater piece by French company Skappa & associés. Lying on the ground, an actor casts his shadow on a large screen, in macroscopic size. On his shadow a town takes shape, and then is bent out of shape. Taking as its cue the fantastical scale of Gulliver in relation to the Lilliputians, Swift!, in the hands of Skappa founders Isabelle Hervouët and Paolo Cardona, is a captivating reinvention of a classic that speaks at different levels to adults and children.
