ONE of the world's best-loved novels - Life of Pi - is heading for the Alhambra in a dazzling production featuring a life-size Bengal Tiger puppet.
This Olivier Award-winning stage adaption of Yann Martel’s best-selling novel - winner of the Man Booker Prize, selling over 15 million copies worldwide - is a "breath-taking epic journey" of endurance and hope.
After a cargo ship sinks in the middle of the vast Pacific Ocean, there are five survivors stranded on a single lifeboat - a hyena, a zebra, an orangutan, a 16-year-old boy and a 450lb Royal Bengal tiger. Time is against them, nature is harsh. Who will survive? Leading the company in this production is Divesh Subaskaran as the boy.
Life of Pi won five Olivier Awards in April 2022. In an historic first for the Oliviers, the seven performers who puppeteer the Tiger, ‘Richard Parker’, were collectively awarded Best Actor in a Supporting Role.
The show opened on Broadway in March and is nominated for five Tony Awards, including Best Costume Design.
* Life of Pi is at the Alhambra from November 6-11. Call (01274) 432000 or visit bradford-theatres.co.uk
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