‘Life of Pi’ at the Ahmanson review: Enchanting and profound

The natural world is ASWIRL in “Life Of Pi”, which is a wonderful innovative adaptation of Yann Martel’s 2002 Boize Guid. This bloody contest includes a flutter of butterflies, goats with sad shell, and Menagerie from wild animals, and at one point, a school of incandescent fish.

Instead of trying to compete with the technological excitement of the 2012 movie, which won the Ang Li Ang Lee Award, the National Pi Life Tour succeeds through magical simplicity. My senses were dazzling when I saw the show for the first time in Broadway in 2023, but my heart won the entire Ahamnson Theater, where this production was opened on Wednesday.

The story revolves around survival at sea for a 17 -year -old boy named PI Patel (which is the amazing Mandevala cooking) after the Japanese shipping ship with his family’s senses was transported on its way to Canada. The missing souls on board include the PI’s Zookeeper Fantastical Fantastical Collection of animals. In a survivor boat with any barely 227 days, I managed me somehow to escape the fate that leaves his parents, sister and most of them (but not all his best comrades at the bottom of the Pacific.

How to withdraw the miracle? This is the question that was posed at the beginning of the adaptation of Lolita Charabarti by two visitors to the B -Hospital: Mr. Ouamoto (Alan Ariano) from the Japanese Ministry of Transport and Lulu Chen (Mai Kang), from the Canadian embassy, ​​both of whom traveled to Mexico, where the boy was washed.

PI, whose athletic name was derived from Piscine, the French word for the swimming pool, recovers from his journey near death. Mr. Ogeoto, who is accused of preparing an official report, is determined to know the exact conditions of the ship’s wreck. But PI is only able to link the fictional version of the events that allowed it to stay for a long time in the sea without food or drinking water.

Mandviola cooking, left, Surab Wadia and the national tour of “Hayat B” in Ahnason.

(Evan Zimmerman)

The gradual transfer in a dream -like manner from the hospital to Bondishiri, India, where PI grew up in a happy breeding of adolescence. In the novel, Charabarti, Charabarti, turns Ravi, in the novel into an older sister named Rani (Sharaio Mahal), a sports game, in the play. Institutional medical preparation becomes a background for a story that is not accurately distinguished between memory and imagination, and one world is free to the next.

Fortunately, the picturesque design of Tim Hatley, who also performed fashion, does not adhere to the traditional laws of physics. The perfectly dedicated video and animation design for Andrzej Gulling, the great lighting for Tim Lutkin, Tim Deing and SuPosive Sound of Carolyn Download places time and space under the leadership of the MAX Webster.

The B family moves to escape from an increasingly messy community. “This government shows us that bad behavior has no consequences,” Beni’s father (Surab Wadi) regrets his wife (Jessica Angelisan), in a line that falls differently today than it was two years ago in Broadway.

Pragon Baharwaj, to the left, Taha Manavio and the national tour of “Hayat B” in Ahnason.

(Evan Zimmerman)

When the opportunity to move to Canada, the choice is clear but not less painful because it is. The animals, which have no one else care about, will also have to migrate, and convert the shipping ship into the modern Noah ship.

He is called Orange Juice, a hyena outside the scope of human feeling, decisively, the Royal Bengal tiger with Mayans Hattami called Richard Parker has prominent roles in the memories of B for his horrific journey after the shipwreck. These animals, the creation of inspiring doll designer Nick Barnes and the art of Kaldawil, is liquid by a team of graceful brides, who maintain the dignity of these creatures without competing.

The scene of Richard Parker, a roar giant of muscles and bristles, is the most frightening. It should be taught to me, who feels in the natural world, to be afraid of a creature that can end his life with one criticism of his claw. (The harsh lesson, which is run by his father, reaffirm the image of Lord Tenison on nature as “red in the teeth and the claw”.

Mandavala cooking and the national tour of “Hayat B.”.

(Evan Zimmerman)

Although Hinduism that originated, PI involved in religious services from many sects. His mother disturbs to hear that her son attended the mosque, the temple and the church on the same day. There is a sacred fool quality for the boy, which is the theme of the trembling. But the PI enlightened early, and its innocence is not a problem that must be corrected, but the quality that must be evacuated.

In New York, I am surprised by the Charabarti book as clumsy in places, especially in the first chapter. But I had nothing to offend Ahnnson, whether because of some slight editing or perhaps just a smoother treatment with the preparation moments.

Some people may resist the seriousness of spiritual work, but I say it is an ideal time to consider the system of our beliefs deeply. If the “Pi” is ethical to transfer, then this is what we are He chooses The belief has a profound impact on our experience in reality, as we know rationally it is true.

Bridal Anna Lee Gortner, Chiloh Joden and Tosan Genluice in the national tour of “Hayat PI” in Ahnason.

(Evan Zimmerman)

The play, after the progress of the novel, is an example of overcoming it. He faces the tragedy, but he refuses to lose what gives his life meaning. He sacrifices that he did not think he would have to make it. It is a religious vegetarian, has to arrest and kill the swimming turtle, then the meat and blood shares it with Richard Parker, a meat -eating animal without a conscience.

“Hayat B” does not live in the death of my loved ones. A mantle of magic realism is thrown on the aspects of the story that may be very annoying. But the indomitable deaths of the way animals are photographed on stage.

With Pi and Richard Parker’s hunger exceeding, the tiger skeleton begins to draw attention to itself. Turtles are devoured in front of our eyes in a way that leaves no doubt that the price of this meal is killing.

The national round of “Hayat B” in Ahnason.

(Evan Zimmerman)

But the darkness of the story helps us to see the beauty of the sparkling universe that prevents PI from undergoing a water grave. The stage turns into a planet of wonders. Is Meerkats that appear near the end of the story real or hallucinations? What is the difference when Pi sees them clearly as a conversation with Richard Parker?

When he finally provides a blatant narration of Mr. Oujdoto, this drawing confirms his father’s long view that a person is the most dangerous animal ever, the lesson of “Pi Life” is thrown in a blatant satisfaction: the truth is not necessarily the same wisdom.

Mandviwala’s performance like PI makes this story delightful and profound emotional. In digging remote seas, this production recovers some of the lost treasure of childhood.