The Talented Mr Ripley to open in Cheltenham on debut UK tour

Cheltenham

Award-winning producers Jack Maple and Thomas Hopkins are delighted to announce the first ever UK tour of the stage adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s iconic novel, The Talented Mr Ripley.

The story will be known to many for the 2000 Oscar nominated film starring Matt Damon, Jude Law and Gwyneth Paltrow and the 2024 Netflix adaptation starring Andrew Scott.

 

 

The brand new stage adaptation will open at the Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham, on Thursday 4th September. 2025, marking the 70th anniversary of the novel’s publication. It will run until Saturday 13th September.

Tom Ripley is a nobody, until he’s offered an unexpected opportunity: travel to Italy and bring home the wealthy and carefree Dickie Greenleaf. But as Tom is drawn into Dickie’s glittering world of privilege, his obsession takes a dark turn. What begins as an innocent invitation spirals into a web of lies, identity theft, and murder.

Set against the sun-drenched backdrop of 1950s Italy, this gripping stage adaptation of The Talented Mr. Ripley brings Patricia Highsmith’s iconic novel to life in a thrilling new production. With razor-sharp dialogue, psychological intensity, and a chillingly charismatic antihero, this is Ripley as you’ve never seen him before.

How far would you go to be someone else?

The Talented Mr Ripley is a Faction production produced by Jack Maple (producer credits: Spring Awakening: The 15th Anniversary Reunion, Victoria Palace Theatre; The View Upstairs, Soho Theatre and Working, Southwark Playhouse) and Thomas Hopkins (This Bitter Earth, Soho Theatre; A Song From Far Away, HOME Manchester & Hampstead Theatre; ROSE, The Ambassadors Theatre).

There will be set and costume design by Holly Piggott (Fleabag, Wyndham’s Theatre) with associate set and costume design by Ellen Farrell, lighting design by Zeynep Kepekli (The Little Mermaid, Bristol Old Vic), sound design by Max Pappenheim (The Night of the Iguana, Noel Coward Theatre) and casting by Marc Frankum CDG (The Woman in Black, Fortune Theatre).

The Talented Mr Ripley opens at the Everyman Theatre from 4th - 13th September, and tickets are now on sale at https://www.everymantheatre.org.uk/shows/the-talented-mr-ripley/

 

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