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Actors' Gang puts the bite back in Swift's classic tale
From: Daily Breeze
Date: 20070706
Author:RAVE!; JIM FARBER *
"Nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison."
-- From Gulliver's Travels
Think Jonathan Swift meets Julie "The Lion King" Taymor. Then add the type of keen-edged political satire for which the Actors' Gang is famous.
That should give you an idea of what to expect from the company's new stage adaptation of Gulliver's Travels, which opens tonight at the Ivy Substation in Culver City.
Just be aware, this is no kiddie cartoon.
What it is, said writer Josh Zeller and director P. Adam Walsh (the team that created the Gang's rollicking children's theater production "Pericles on the High ...
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