Gulliver’s Travels to be performed in Vietnam
(VOV) - The British TNT Theatre will perform “Gulliver’s Travels” with Vietnamese subtitles in Hanoi on May 8 and in HCM City on May 10-11.
The Vietnamese Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism said on April 11 that the comedy especially target young audiences who are proficient in English.
The comedy is adapted from a novel written by Jonathan Swift and directed by Paul Stebbing.
It has been performed in more than 20 European and Asian countries over the last eight months.
Gulliver’s Travels is a work normally performed for children, but TNT Theatre has adapted it for teenagers by using comedians, acrobats, music and witty dialogue.
TNT Theatre has previously performed “Romeo and Juliet” and “A Christmas Carol” to Vietnamese audiences. In the past two years alone it has presented Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” and “King Lear” and Dicken’s “Oliver Twist” in HCM City, Hanoi and Danang.