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1 day ago · A visceral new drama about three generations of women in a chaotic world, from Olivier Award-winning writer Lolita Chakrabarti. Listen on Sunday 12th May at 8pm on BBC Radio 3!
3 days ago · It has enjoyed major success as a film with CGI animals in 2012 – and now as puppets in Lolita Chakrabarti’s new stage adaptation, directed by Max Webster, made in collaboration with Sheffield Theatres, Tulchin/Bartner Productions, Playing Field, and Simon Friend Entertainment.
5 days ago · Crucial in realising the ambitions of Lolita and Max is FINN CALDWELL, the movement and puppetry director. Thanks to his high-precision work, the tiger seems to be every bit as a real as Divesh Subaskaran, the actor playing Pi, a role alternated by Adwitha Arumugam at certain performances.
3 days ago · Playwright Lolita Chakrabarti’s adaption for the stage captures the struggles and darkness within Life of Pi and condenses it into a little over two hours of intense drama.
2 days ago · For anyone unaware, Life of Pi began life as a widely-heralded 2001 novel created by Yann Martel, quickly adapted into a multiple Oscar-winning intimate blockbuster by genius-auteur Ang Li, and now transported onto the stage by Lolita Chakrabarti.
3 days ago · Since premiering at Sheffield Crucible in 2019, Lolita Chakrabarti’s stage adaptation of Yann Martel’s Man Booker prize winning novel has enchanted audiences and critics alike on both sides of the Atlantic, winning 5 Olivier Awards and 3 Tony Awards. How the creative team have achieved this is almost as magical as the story itself.
2 days ago · Lolita Chakrabarti’s powerful stageplay Red Velvet tells the ensuing story through a mix of truth and imagination, revealing the story of a man who broke every convention of the day as he suffered intense racism at the hands of both critics and his fellow actors. ‘Ira Aldridge was an amazing man,’ says Chakrabarti.
