Search results
- With dazzling imagination and sublime control, the show’s cast and crew conjure a delirious, dynamic, highly pettable world. And oh, is it a wonder. Though the play is ostensibly about one boy’s fraught survival after a disaster, that story is somewhat thin. “Life of Pi” instead succeeds as a broader tribute to human ingenuity and animal grace.
www.nytimes.com › 2023/03/30 › theater
Mar 30, 2023 · Pi (Hiran Abeysekera) and the Bengal tiger Richard Parker in “Life of Pi.” The fantasy world of the play is built from a beautiful synchrony of lighting, video, sound and set, our critic...
- Alexis Soloski
Based on Yann Martel’s best-selling novel, winner of the Man Booker Prize, Life of Pi follows a 16-year-old boy stranded in a lifeboat with some unusual company.
Mar 30, 2023 · Broadway review by Adam Feldman. Some plays offer a slice of life; Life of Pi is a wedge of fantasy. Adapted by Lolita Chakrabarti from Yann Martel’s bestselling 2001 novel, which also...
Dec 3, 2021 · Manipulated by three puppeteers responsible for head, heart and hind, the tiger of Life of Pi is astonishing. The eye quickly dismisses the handlers, who are dressed in anodyne shades of beige...
- Annabel Nugent
Dec 2, 2021 · Bestseller though it is – 10 million copies and counting – it’s fair to say that “Life of Pi,” the extraordinary story of a shipwrecked 17-year-old who did (or maybe didn’t) spend 227 ...
Time Out praises the technical wizardry and puppetry of this theatre show based on Yann Martel's Booker Prize winner. However, the story feels less compelling and the main character less believable than the visual spectacle.
Review: Life of Pi Brings a Harrowing Tale of Survival on the High Seas to the Stage. The hit West End adaptation of Yann Martel’s bestselling novel arrives on Broadway with all its visual...
