Twisting Yarn Theatre Company presents

Life of Pi

Spring 2007

From the production arm of the Alhambra Theatre in Bradford comes this highly acclaimed theatrical adaptation of the 2002 Man Booker prize winner for fiction: The Life of Pi by Yann Martel.

The play charts the story of Pi, a 16 year old Hindu boy from Pondicherry in Tamil Nadu (Southern India). His family owns a zoo and Pi learns about life from animals around him. He is a precocious boy and - much to his family's disbelief - becomes a Muslim and a Christian as well as being a Hindu! His family decide to leave India and emigrate to Canada, taking some of the zoo's animals with them. En route, the ship sinks and his family dies - or do they? This is the story of Pi's adventure, surviving at sea on a life boat with a zebra, a hyena, an orang utan and a 450 lb Bengal Tiger: a story that nobody believes - or do they? - do you?

"a superb production...it has the senses tingling and the imagination soaring...the creativity and inventiveness on show takes the breath away...a huge achievement" - THE STAGE

UK TOUR DATES 2007

27th February - 3rd March: Watermans Arts Centre, Brentford
5th - 7th March: Lighthouse, Poole
8th - 10th March: Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal
13th - 17th March: Citizen's Theatre, Glasgow
20th - 24th March: Peepul Centre, Leicester
27th - 31st March: Grand Opera House, Belfast
3rd - 7th April: Northern Stage, Newcastle
10th - 14th April: New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich
17th - 21st April: Theatre Royal Winchester
24th - 25th April: Jersey Arts Centre
1st - 2nd May: Pontardawe Arts Centre, Swansea
10th - 12th May: Greenwich Theatre, London