Cast announced for the first UK & Ireland Tour of Life Of Pi

Lolita Chakrabarti’s dazzling Olivier Award-winning stage adaption of Yann Martel’s best-selling novel Life of Pi, starring an extraordinary life-size puppeteered Bengal Tiger. Beginning its first-ever tour of the UK and Ireland at Sheffield’s Lyceum theatre this August 2023, where it runs from 29 August to 16 September 2023, Divesh Subaskaran is confirmed to make his professional debut in the central role of Pi.

He is joined by Antony Antunes, who performs as Tiger Hind / Cook / Father Martin, Adwitha Arumugam as Pi Alternate, Bhawna Bhawsar as Lulu Chen/Mrs Biology Kumar, Ralph Birtwell as Mamaji/ Admiral Balbir Singh, Kriss Dosanjh as Father, Sebastian Goffin as Tiger Head, Akash Heer as Tiger Head, Romina Hytten as Tiger Heart and Hind, Katie Kennedy-Rose as Tiger Heart and Hind, Aizah Khan as Tiger Heart and Hind, Chand Martinez as Pandit-ji, Keshini Misha as Rani,

Goldy Notay as Amma, Sharita Oomeer as Lulu Chen / Mrs Biology Kumar, Kate Rowsell as Tiger Heart and Hind, Lilian Tsang as Mrs Okamoto/Zaida Khan/Ships Captain, Peter Twose and Tiger Head/Voice of Richard Parker/Cook/Father Martin.

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?

Sheffield Lyceum
29 August – 16 September 2023

Milton Keynes Theatre
19 – 23 September 2023

Norwich Theatre Royal
25 – 30 September 2023

Woking, New Victoria Theatre
2 – 7 October 2023

Southend Cliffs Pavilion
9 – 14 October 2023

Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff
17 – 21 October 2023

Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury
23 – 28 October 2023

Alhambra Theatre, Bradford
6 – 11 November 2023

Chichester Festival Theatre Tickets on sale from September 2023
16 November – 2 December

Lowry, Salford
5 December 2023 – 6 January 2024

Leeds Grand Theatre
9 – 13 January 2024

Bristol Hippodrome
15 – 20 January 2024