Gulliverse 3 moves to the floating island of Laputa, through which Swift illuminates how scholars and their ideas fail to address the actual needs of laborers on the ground—those living in poverty and pain—despite the promise of innovative theories.

The production allegorizes South Korea’s “education fever” through Swift’s vainly idealistic island of academia alienated from practical reality. In a world dominated by Laputa’s mechanisms, students sell their futures for uncertain promises made by academies (hagwon), which are ready to attribute students’ “failures” to personal inadequacy. Knowing that only the winner takes all, students cannot stop the toxic race.

Canonical texts by Chekhov, Shakespeare, Ibsen, and Sophocles have been stripped of their original contexts, taxidermized into audition repertories. Gulliverse 3 collages these textual corpses and exposes the gaps torn open in the patchwork. Through those gaps, the production invites audiences to witness how the educational system processes and extinguishes young dreams before they have the chance to bloom.