The first ever UK tour of the stage adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s iconic, gripping novel THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY will kick off in Cheltenham later this year.
THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY is a theatre production, 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). Casting to be announced.
“I never wanted to murder anyone. It was necessary.”
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?
THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY is a The 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, 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 2025 TOUR LISTINGS
4 – 13 September Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham
15 – 20 September Festival Theatre, Edinburgh
22 – 27 September Birmingham Rep
6 – 11 October New Victoria Theatre, Woking
13 – 18 October Oxford Playhouse
27 October – 1 November Theatre Royal Brighton
3 – 8 November Bristol Old Vic
10 – 15 November Richmond Theatre
2026 touring dates to be announced
