“Aided by the other production elements, the mise-en-scène constantly moves and shifts,” she adds. Writing in the Times, Alexis Soloski says, there is a beautiful synchrony of lighting, video, sound and set. The critics are particularly impressed by the stagecraft that includes special effects and some captivating puppets masquerading as animals. “Aided by the other production elements, the mise-en-scène constantly moves and shifts.” There is a beautiful synchrony of lighting, video, sound and set. Reviewing in Timeout, Adam Feldman says, “The impressive Abeysekera, who created the role of Pi in the West End, is a physically and emotionally agile actor, and his maturity-he is twice Pi’s age-helps give the character some of the gravitas missing from the script.” He “is extraordinary as the central character of Pi agile and expressive, he persuasively channels Pi’s distinctive mix of innocence, intelligence, unusual spirituality and mischievous wit,” wrote New York theater critic and journalist Jonathan Mandell. The play features a stellar cast of 24 actors, many of them South Asians, with a Sri Lankan-born, British-trained actor, Hiran Abeysekera in the lead as Pi. “Life of Pi” instead succeeds as a broader tribute to human ingenuity and animal grace.” Though the play is ostensibly about one boy’s fraught survival after a disaster, that story is somewhat thin. The New York Times said, “With dazzling imagination and sublime control, the show’s cast and crew conjure a delirious, dynamic, highly pettable world.
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