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Description
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)
Product details

Published | Feb 08 1999 |
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Format | Paperback |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 112 |
ISBN | 9780413732200 |
Imprint | Methuen Drama |
Dimensions | 8 x 5 inches |
Series | Screen and Cinema |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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'Nagy's adaptation is dreamlike; scenes blur, and the players in Ripley's psychotic game - all of them, as far as he's concerned, dispensable - loom like grotesque caricatures.'
Sam Marlowe, The Times, 22.9.10
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'it often feels as if there is a tension in Phyllis Nagy's hugely intelligent adaptation between the mechanics of murder and the metaphysics.'
Lyn Gardner, Guardian, 23.9.10
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'The play [...] is cunningly planned, with details accruing until we realise taht the whole thing is taking place in Ripley's mind's eye.'
Maxie Szalwinska, Sunday Times, 3.10.10