The production is set to open at the Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham on the 4th September, with official opening night on the 10th September.
Complete casting has now been confirmed for the upcoming UK tour of The Talented Mr. Ripley.
Joining the previously announced Ed McVey (The Crown, Netflix) as Tom Ripley and Maisie Smith (Eastenders, BBC) as Marge Sherwood will be Bruce Herbelin-Earle (Free Reign, Netflix; The Boys in the Boat, Warner Bros) as Dickie Greenleaf, Christopher Bianchi (Othello, Tobacco Factory; Aesop’s Fables, Bristol Old Vic) as Herbert Greenleaf/Roverini, Cary Crankson (Death of England, National Theatre & Soho Place Theatre; A View From The Bridge, West End) as Freddie Miles/Alvin McCarron, Leda (Antigone, UK Tour) as Cleo/Dottie and Jason Eddy (Othello, Royal Shakespeare Theatre; The Rat Trap, Off-Broadway) as Peter/Fausto. The cast is completed by Lachlan McCall (A Christmas Carol and The Merry Wives of Windsor, OVO Theatre), Hollie Sullivan (The Mousetrap, UK Tour; Private Lives, Vienna’s English Theatre)and Aldous Ciokajlo-Squire (Doctor Who, BBC/Disney+; Everything Now, Netflix).
Step into a world of deception, desire, and deadly ambition.
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?
Coinciding with the 70th anniversary of Patricia Highsmith’s novel, this new UK touring production has been adapted and directed by Mark Leipacher (Mary Stuart, New Diorama, UK tour and international; A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Wilton’s Music Hall/Theatre Royal Bath Ustinov/UK tour).
The creative team behind the production is also set to include: set and costume design by Holly Piggott (Fleabag, Wyndham’s Theatre), 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).
For further information visit: https://thetalentedmrripleyplay.com/