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Unicorn theatre, LondonBewitching video and ingenious sets combine in a staging that turns the 18th-century adventure into an escape for a troubled studentThis radical reimagining of Jonathan Swift’s 18th-century tale of a shipwrecked surgeon is less a biting social satire and more a journey into imagination and fantasy as a refuge from the real world.Writer Lulu Raczka revives Lemuel Gulliver as a student whose mother is seriously ill, and who decides to be “someone else” to escape her pain through make-believe. So she imaginatively enacts the voyages that comprise Swift’s four-part book from the confines of her bedroom.At the Unicorn theatre, London, until 16 April Continue reading...