The Life of Pi UK and Ireland Tour 2023 will see the award-winning West End production visit a theatre near you. Life Of Pi UK and Ireland Tour 2023-24 Lolita Chakrabarti’s dazzling Olivier Award-winning stage adaption of Yann Martel’s best-selling novel
Life of Pi, which is currently running at
Wyndham’s Theatre in the West End and stars an extraordinary life-size puppeteered Bengal Tiger, begins its first-ever tour of the UK and Ireland at the Sheffield’s Lyceum theatre in August 2023, where it will run from 29 August to 16 September 2023. The critically acclaimed production also begins previews this week at American Repertory Theatre and opens on Broadway next March. The tour will then continue to Milton Keynes Theatre, Norwich Theatre Royal, Southend Cliffs Pavillion, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury, Alhambra Theatre, Bradford, Chichester Festival Theatre, The Lowry, Salford, Bristol Hippodrome, Newcastle Theatre Royal, Theatre Royal Brighton, Birmingham Hippodrome, Grand Opera House, Belfast, Bord Gais Theatre, Dublin, Theatre Royal Plymouth, Curve Leicester, Hull New Theatre, Coventry Belgrade, Nottingham Theatre Royal, Wolverhampton Grand Theatre, Liverpool Empire, Severn Theatre Shrewsbury, Mayflower Theatre, Southampton, Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham, Glasgow Theatre Royal, Edinburgh Festival Theatre, Leeds Grand Theatre and finally Derngate Theatre in Northampton in July 2024.
JOIN OUR MAILING LIST TO STAY INFORMED Hiran Abeysekeras (Pi) in Life of Pi. Photo: Johan Persson
LIFE OF PI - THE AWARD-WINNING PRODUCTION Life of Pi won five Olivier Awards in April 2022. As well as Best New Play, and Best Actor for Hiran Abeysekera (the original Pi); in an historic first for the Olivier Awards - the seven performers who puppeteer the Tiger ‘Richard Parker’were collectively awarded Best Actor in a Supporting Role. The production also picked up awards for set (Tim Hatley, Nick Barnes and Finn Caldwell), and lighting design (Tim Lutkin and Andrzej Goulding).
LIFE OF PI CREATIVE TEAM The production is directed by Max Webster, Set and Costume Designer is Tim Hatley, the Puppet Designers are Nick Barnes and Finn Caldwell, the Puppet and Movement Director is Finn Caldwell, the Video Designer is Andrzej Goulding, the Lighting Designer is Tim Lutkin, the Sound Designer is Carolyn Downing, the Composer is Andrew T Mackay, Dramaturgy is by Jack Bradley, the Casting Director is Polly Jerrold, the Associate Director is Leigh Toney, the Associate Puppetry and Movement Director is Scarlet Wilderink, the Associate Set Designer is Ross Edwards, the Associate Puppet Designer is Caroline Bowman, the Costume Supervisor is Sabrina Cuniberto and the Props Supervisor is Ryan O’Conner.
LIFE OF PI TOUR CAST Casting for the tour is yet to be announced. Life of Pi Company West End. Photo: Ellie Kurttz
WHAT IS LIFE OF PI ABOUT? Based on one of the best-loved works of fiction – winner of the Man Booker Prize, selling over fifteen million copies worldwide –
Life of Pi is a breath-taking new theatrical adaptation of an epic journey of endurance and hope. After a cargo ship sinks in the middle of the vast Pacific Ocean, there are five survivors stranded on a single lifeboat – a hyena, a zebra, an orangutan, a sixteen-year-old boy and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger. Time is against them, nature is harsh, who will survive? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7GhvaKntK8 https://britishtheatre.com/life-of-pi-release-new-production-photographs-at-wyndhams-theatre/
Life Of Pi UK Tour 2023-24 Dates Severn Theatre Shrewsbury 6 - 11 May 2024
BOOK TICKETS Mayflower Theatre Southampton 14 - 18 May 2024
BOOK TICKETS Everyman Theatre Cheltenham 3 - 15 June 2024
BOOK TICKETS Theatre Royal Glasgow 17 - 22 June 2024
BOOK TICKETS Festival Theatre Edinburgh 25 - 29 June 2024
BOOK TICKETS Leeds Grand Theatre 2 - 13 July 2024
BOOK TICKETS Northampton Derngate Theatre 15 - 20 July 2024
BOOK TICKETS