La Vida de Pi

Stage adaptation of Yann Martel's novel directed by José Luis Arellano García, following a young castaway and a Bengal tiger in a story about survival and faith.

This contemporary theatre production brings Yann Martel's novel to the stage in an adaptation by Lolita Chakrabarti, directed by José Luis Arellano García. It is a world premiere by LaJoven, with the support of Bogaris, the Fundación Teatral Antonio Banderas and Smedia. Arellano has previously directed Un monstruo viene a verme and Invisible.

On stage, Pi Patel, a sixteen-year-old boy from India and the son of a zookeeper, is adrift in a lifeboat after a ship sinks in the Pacific. He is joined by four surviving animals, among them the Bengal tiger Richard Parker. Hunger and the sea force the two of them to learn to trust one another in order to stay alive. The play is both a journey of faith and survival and a psychological tug-of-war between the boy and the beast.

The central themes are resilience, spirituality, the power of imagination and the boundary between the real and the mythical. The original version from the West End and Broadway won five Olivier Awards and three Tony Awards, including the one for best breakthrough play.