With her adaptation of “Life of Pi” she began by highlighting quotations she felt held theatrical possibility, and then grouping them under different themes such as “hunger”, “God”, “family” and “loss”
Lolita Chakrabarti has been shuttling between the hustle and bustle of New York and the bucolic English town of Stratford-upon-Avon. Previews of her adaptation of “Life of Pi”, Yann Martel’s fantasy adventure novel, began on Broadway last month.
Ms Chakrabarti excels at locating “the guts of somebody else’s story”, says Caro Newling of Neal Street Productions, co-producers of “Hamnet”. The dramatist says she starts by deconstructing the text as written. With “Life of Pi”—a work she describes as “a delicious conundrum”—she began by highlighting quotations she felt held theatrical possibility, and then grouping them under different themes such as “hunger”, “God”, “family” and “loss”.
Ms Chakrabarti, who writes original dramas as well as adaptations, first established herself as a playwright with another project of immense scope. “Red Velvet” tells the story of Ira Aldridge, an African-American actor who toured Europe extensively in the 19th century to great acclaim. It took Ms Chakrabarti 30 drafts—and 15 years between original idea and first production—to condense the epic story into a two-act play.
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