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Life of Pi

by Yann Martel
adapted by Lolita Chakrabarti

An animated image of a tiger and an actor playing the character of Pi Patel

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Puppetry, magic and storytelling combine in a unique, Olivier Award-winning stage adaptation of the best-selling novel.

After a cargo ship sinks in the middle of the vast Pacific Ocean, a 16-year-old boy named Pi is stranded on a lifeboat with four other survivors – a hyena, a zebra, an orangutan and a Royal Bengal tiger. Time is against them, nature is harsh, who will survive?

Filmed live in London’s West End and featuring state-of-the-art visuals, the epic journey of endurance and hope is bought to life in a breath-taking new way, now streaming on National Theatre at Home

A production from Simon Friend Entertainment and Sheffield Theatres.

A photograph depicting a man wearing white clothing and a large tiger puppet sitting on a boat.
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Watch a clip from the production