Life of Pi

Yann Martel, Lolita Chakrabarti

• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Year: 2022
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781350359710
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: British Drama

Winner of the 2022 Olivier Award for Best New Play

"Life of Pi will make you believe in the power of theatre" - The Times

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?

Based on one of the most extraordinary and best-loved works of fiction – winner of the Man Booker Prize, selling over 15million 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.

Adapted by acclaimed playwright Lolita Chakrabarti, this edition was published to coincide with the Broadway premiere in October 2022.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Contents
• Foreword
• Introduction
• Life of Pi
• Characters (and suggested doubling)
• Scene 1: A Hospital Room, Mexico, 1978
• Scene 2: Pondicherry Zoo, India, 1976
• Scene 3: The Hospital Room
• Scene 4: Pondicherry Market
• Scene 5: The Tsimtsum
• A Sequence of Time Passing
• Scene 6: The Hospital Room
• Scene 7: The Pacific Ocean
• Scene 8: The Hospital Room
• Scene 9: At Sea
• Caption – Thirty days later
• Scene 10: The Hospital Room
• Scene 11: At Sea
• Caption: Five days without water
• Caption: Ten days without water
• Scene 12: The Hospital Room
• Scene 13: Coast of Mexico
• Scene 14: The Hospital Room
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