When a character promises a life story so inspirational it’ll make a believer of an atheist, the tale better come through on some big-time convincing. Life of Pi, Lolita Chakrabarti’s stage a…
pits its open-hearted hero against a no-nonsense investigator sent round to get to the bottom of both a mystery – why did that ship sink? – and loads of spiritual folderol.“Are you a religious man Mr. Okamoto?,” the hospitalized, still traumatized Pi asks the investigator looking into the sinking of a merchant ship. “Religion,” comes the response, “is a habit rather than a truth. A crutch in times of need.
Granted, it really is some tale. Piscine Molitor Patel – he prefers Pi – is a 17-year-old, religiously searching Indian boy from Pondicherry, embarking, along with his parents, sister and cratefuls of animals from the family zoo, to Canada to escape the political unrest of 1970s India. When a storm sinks the ship, the gentle-souled, vegetarian Pi makes his way to a lifeboat, which he’ll soon be sharing with some fellow castaways of the four-legged variety.
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