![]() Here he is being interrogated by two officials (in the book both male, here a man and a woman) about what happened when his ship, the Tsitsum, sank in the Pacific en route from India to Canada.Īs the production unfolds there is much to love, but its astonishing power comes from the puppetry, which is overseen by Finn Caldwell who has a pedigree that goes back to the National Theatre’s War Horse. In contrast to the fantastical polychromatic world that is about to open up to us, we meet Pi hiding under a bed in a grey hospital room. Lolita Chakrabarti’s script – which plays up the book’s comedy over its gentle teasing philosophy – begins at the end of Martel’s narrative so that we witness Pi’s trials and tribulations in flashback. ![]() The challenge for the production team for this transfer – which has been delayed, like so many, by Covid – has been to recreate the show so that we can feel the full roar of its impact from the proscenium arch of Wyndham’s. Director Ang Lee has captured it – not entirely successfully according to Martel – on film, while Max Webster’s Sheffield Crucible theatre production arrives in London on a flotilla of five-star reviews. ![]() ![]() Millions of people have now been swept up in his Booker-winning magical realist odyssey.
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