Eight puppeteers alone are credited as operators of Richard Parker, the Bengal tiger sharing a lifeboat with Pi, played by heroically energetic Hiran Abeysekera. Richard deserves above-the-title billing as much as Abeysekera would in the London-born production that marked its opening Thursday night. He’s the most expressive cat to make his Broadway debut since, well, “Cats.”
The old show-business saw about leaving the theater humming the scenery certainly applies to “Life of Pi,” which owes much to the puppet designs of Nick Barnes and Finn Caldwell and the ingenious sets of Tim Hatley . It’s a pop-up book of a play, with a boat that actually does pop up out of the stage floor. As such, the production is more striking than stimulating.
Your little ones might not catch the spiritual drift of Lolita Chakrabarti’s workmanlike script, but they’ll delight in the Ark’s worth of Day-Glo fish, diaphanous birds and lifelike quadrupeds. But some adults might grow a bit impatient with the leisurely pace at which events unfold — though the play’s structure is an upgrade on, which employed the hackneyed device of a grown-up Pi relating his tale of shipwreck and survival to a writer.
We know from the start that Pi lives through his ordeal, and only toward the very end does “Life of Pi” introduce the possibility of alternative explanations for what happened at sea. Likeand film, the play seeks as much to be a meditation on faith as it is about an oceangoing story of endurance.
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