On 21.Nov 2012 students of our school watched the performance "Gulliver's Travels" by J.Swift exhibited on the stage of the Apollo Theatre. For the first time they had a chance to see a professional theater performance in a foreign language.
TNT theatre was founded in 1980 in Britain and since has established itself as one of the most popular international touring theatre companies in the world. Last season alone the company produced seven productions in almost thirty countries worldwide, ranging from Shakespeare classics such as ROMEO & JULIET , J.Swift GULLIVER’s TRAVELS to their own new play HITLER KILLED MY CANARY, from works by contemporary artists such as Paul Auster’s MOON PALACE to the classic seasonal show: Dickens’ CHRISTMAS CAROL.
You can see some short scenes of GULLIVER’S TRAVELS here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoaGj9xI6jo
GULLIVER’S TRAVELS has been called the greatest satirical work ever written – in an age where the world once again seems to have turned upside down Swift’s caustic wit and irreverent honesty have never been more relevant.
GULLIVER’S TRAVELS is often debased as a children’s story, and has never been anything of the sort! TNT will rescue this literary masterpiece from the pygmies who tried to turn it into a juvenile entertainment and create a play that asks us the very mature questions that Swift was posing three hundred years ago: what is the moral basis of government? What is the value of money? What is the aim of science? And finally, when humans behave like vicious animals why should they be valued higher than beasts? Each of these questions is addressed by Swift in his travels to four different lands – not only Lilliput. TNT dramatise each of the four journeys and because satire is only sharp if it is contemporary, we naturally apply Swift’s critique to our own troubled world.
Here is a
ahort student’s review:
I think a trip to see the performance was an amazing experience. What
is more,
it is not obvious if would choose it when I had the possibility to go somewhere out with my friends .. This is another way in which we practice the language and listen to it .. The native speakers - actors speak it every day, and we waatch and listen to them and pick it up more and more. It is Nicer to participate in it than we can practice it during everyday lessons.
It is a pity, such trips cannot be held more often.I hope that such diversification in learning will be available at least once in a school year.
it is not obvious if would choose it when I had the possibility to go somewhere out with my friends .. This is another way in which we practice the language and listen to it .. The native speakers - actors speak it every day, and we waatch and listen to them and pick it up more and more. It is Nicer to participate in it than we can practice it during everyday lessons.
It is a pity, such trips cannot be held more often.I hope that such diversification in learning will be available at least once in a school year.
Oliwia Lebiedź
class 3b
