Yann Martel's bestselling novel of 2001, Life of Pi , has been defined in many ways. The tale of the fantastical adventures of young Piscine “Pi” Patel, a Royal Bengal Tiger, named Richard Parker, due to an admin issue, and a number of other animals cut adrift on a raft in the middle of the ocean meant different things to every reader. Perhaps it is, as Pi says, a story that makes you believe in god, or maybe, it enriches you with spiritual ways to love and embrace life, or perhaps, it is just an adventurous fantasy. In all honesty, it doesn't matter, as it is a tale that seemingly offers something to all. Impossibly transferred to the screen in a 2012 film by Ang Lee, the unfilmable, became filmable, so, with this stage show, how could this be stageable? The "how" is through some staggeringly impressive puppets and a brilliantly constructed set. The lead, young Pi himself, is played by a brilliant Divesh Subaskaran. Subaskaran gives a star-making performance in his p