As filming progressed, Maguire was replaced by Rafe Spall because the director thought Maguire's fame would have been too distracting. When officials from the Maritime department don't believe his story, Pi tells them another one but this time with a slightly different angle.Īndrew Garfield was initially considered for the role of "The Writer" but Tobey Maguire was cast. The documentary is a journey through his life and work of the last 30 years with interviews with his. Pi tries catching fish to feed the tiger so he won't get eaten himself. 18:30 Jujutsu Kaisen 0: The Movie, LAB 3, Tickets. On the sea in a lifeboat, he's accompanied by the other survivorsa zebra, a hyena, a female orangutan and a 450-pound aggressive Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. When his family decides to move their zoo from India to Canada, Pi winds up as the only human survivor of the tragic sinking of a cargo ship. I hope that lots of people will get to see this show in whatever form it exists in, it’s such a well-loved book and film.A man named Pi tells a story that occurred when he was 16. I always love whichever scene we’re working on. “I think about how audiences might react to different moments in the show every single day! I think there’s such excitement in when the tiger first appears, or when Pi kills a fish for the first time and breaks his vegetarianism, or when the night sky lights up to make Pi feel like he might just be alright in this universe. Is there a moment in Life of Pi that you’re particularly excited for audiences to experience? The harder challenge for us is to take this novel, which is episodic and mostly takes place with the boy and a tiger on a boat with not much happening, and turning that into a story and a piece of theatre that works on stage.” “Weirdly, putting things like a Zebra or a Tiger on stage have been some of the easiest things so far because we have a brilliant team of puppet designers, movement directors and skilled puppeteers. Has anything surprised you during the process of creating this show? So, to me, theatre is absolutely the best way to be telling Yann Martel’s story because it’s the medium that most acts you to join in the collective act of imagination.” Theatre is all about not representing things literally you can’t put the sea on stage, or a tiger, or a magic island – but you can ask the audience to join Pi and his imagination. That’s also a very theatrical question, instead of asking what’s the realistic way of doing it, what’s the imaginative way to do something – as soon as you open that door, theatre is your oyster. That’s an important question as to how we look at the world as individuals and how we want to look at events that happen – do we look to see the bad things that are happening, or do we imagine how things might transform to make the world better? At the end of the show he asks his interviewers, and the audience too, to choose which story they prefer: do you prefer life in its most factual and scientific way, or do you prefer it to be filled with imagination?
Pi tells two stories about how he survived at sea: one is realistic, brutal and cruel with just humans, and the other is fantastical and full of imagination, animals and fantasy. Why did you decide to make Life of Pi into a theatre show?
Director of Life of Pi, Max Webster, gave us a preview of rehearsals and chatted to us about bringing this epic tale to the stage.