31.03 / 02:15
Entertainment
broadway
Curtain Call
Puppets, projections, and a charming twunk will captivate ‘Life of Pi’ audiences
The Lion King may no longer rule Broadway’s puppet kingdom with the arrival of Life of Pi, Lolita Chakrabarti’s visually stunning adaptation of the best-selling novel by Yann Martel.Originating at Sheffield’s Crucible Theatre and then transferring to London’s West End where it won five Olivier Awards, including Best New Play, Life of Pi manages to accomplish the magical by entertaining audiences of all ages with innovative stage design and a more complex narrative about surviving trauma, which is all too familiar for the queer community.Pi (a charismatic Hiram Abeysekera reprising his Olivier-winning performance) is a precocious teenager whose family flees Pondicherry, India, in the mid-70s due to increased violence.
