The plot of the play is that the Lilliputians band together to join an international basketball league .
The Lilliputians are the ant - sized people on the fictional island of Lilliput in Gulliver 's Travels .
The plot of the play is that the Lilliputians , the ant - sized people on the fictional island of Lilliput in Gulliver 's Travels , band together to join an international basketball league .