Patricia Highsmith & Phyllis Nagy 
The Talented Mr Ripley 
Play

The first stage adaptation of Patricia Highsmith”s famous crime novel

Tom

Ripley is a criminal with an ambiguous past. He is sent to Italy by a

wealthy financier to try and coax home the rich man”s son. In the

process Ripley becomes both attracted and seduced, finding the murder

the only way to deal with the situation. From that point Ripley tries

to cover up his crime. Patricia Highsmith”s beguiling tale of morality

and amorality is given a dramatic rendering by contemporary dramatist

Phyllis Nagy, who knew Highsmith in her later years in Paris.

’Each

play I see by Phyllis Nagy confirms me in the belief that she is the

finest playwright to have emerged in the 1990s’ (Financial Times)