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Then the tiger, known as Richard Parker due to an administrative error, surges aboard. The lifeboat emerges from the apron stage and is soon teeming with life: a zebra, a hyena, an orangutan. His faith serves him well when the ship taking his family and their menagerie to Canada inexplicably sinks: his vegetarianism, not so much.Ĭhakrabarti shrewdly inverts the narrative, with Hiran Abeysekera’s magnetic Pi interrogated by investigators in a drab hospital room that unfolds, origami-like, to become the zoo, the ship, the sea. Our hero is the son of a Pondicherry zoo-owner: named Piscine Molitor after a Parisian swimming pool, he adopts the mathematical term Pi as a nickname and is so religious he becomes simultaneously a devout Hindu, Muslim and Christian. The novel was published in 2001 and won the Booker Prize a year later, before the debate about cultural appropriation properly heated up: 20 years on there’s an undeniable whiff of winsome exoticism to its characters and atmosphere.

Pi tells us that for a human to survive, he sometimes has to become a beast. Lolita Chakrabarti’s script finesses Martel’s dream-like, magic-realist narrative but preserves his jagged blend of humour and horror. The performers throw their whole bodies into it. Director Max Webster fuses sublime puppetry from War Horse’s Finn Caldwell, clever projection, and masterly stage design by Tim Hatley to bring the story to vibrant visual life. That’s the word for this stage adaptation of Yann Martel’s bestseller about a 16-year-old Indian boy adrift in a lifeboat with a hungry Bengal tiger.

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