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Life of Pi

Closed 9 Jan 2022

Wyndham's Theatre

After a cargo ship sinks in the middle of the vast Pacific Ocean, there are five survivors stranded on a lifeboat - a hyena, a zebra, an orangutan, a Royal Bengal tiger, and a sixteen year-old boy named Pi.
Life of Pi at Wyndham's Theatre

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Show details

Synopsis


After a cargo ship sinks in the middle of the vast Pacific Ocean, there are five survivors stranded on a lifeboat - a hyena, a zebra, an orangutan, a Royal Bengal tiger, and a sixteen year-old boy named Pi.


Time is against them, nature is harsh, who will survive?


Background information, advisory warnings


Age suitability: 8+


Based on one of the most extraordinary and best-loved works of fiction - winner of the Man Booker Prize, selling over fifteen million copies worldwide - and featuring breath-taking puppetry and state-of-the-art visuals, Life of Pi is a universally acclaimed, smash hit adaptation of an epic journey of endurance and hope.

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Dates


Previews from:Sunday 26 September 2021

Closes:Sunday 9 January 2022

Performance days & times


Evening:

Monday ‑ 7‑30pm

Wednesday ‑ 7‑30pm

Thursday ‑ 7‑30pm

Friday ‑ 7‑30pm

Saturday ‑ 7‑30pm


Intervals:1

Matinee:

Thursday - 2-30pm

Saturday - 2-30pm

Sunday - 3-00pm


Intervals:1

Running time: 2 hrs 5 mins (inc interval)

Tickets


Standard:
From £27.50

Access information


Audio Described: Wed 2 Sep 7.45pm

Captioned: Wed 9 Sep 7.45pm


Cast


Hiran Abeysekera - Pi

Mina Anwar - Ma

Sagar Arya - Pa

Alex Chang - Understudy Male

Fred Davis - Tiger Hind

Tom Espiner - Father Martin/ Commander Grant-Jones

Kirsten Foster - Lulu Chen

Daisy Franks - Tiger Hind

Raj Ghatak - Mamaji/Pandit-Ji

Romina Hytten - Tiger Heart

Sarah Kameela Impey - Rani

Syreeta Kumar - Mrs Biology/Zaida Khan

Tom Larkin - Tiger Head

Tommy Luther - Tiger Head

Deeivya Meir - Understudy Female

Habib Nasib Nader - Cook/Voice of Richard Parker

Nuwan Hugh Perera - Pi Alternate

David K.S. Tse - Mr Okamoto

Scarlet Wilderink - Tiger Heart


Creatives


Author: Based on the novel by Yann Martel, adapted by Lolita Chakrabarti
Composer: Andrew T. Mackay
Director: Max Webster
Designer: Tim Hatley
Lighting: Tim Lutkin
Sound: Carolyn Downing
Projections: Andrzej Goulding (video designer)
Movement: Finn Caldwell
Dramaturg: Jack Bradley
Puppetry: Finn Caldwell (director); Nick Barnes and Finn Caldwell (designers)
Production: Simon Friend Entertainment

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