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The Talented Mr RipleyClick on the images to view larger versions. Photographs by George Coupe
Yet again the Dukes scores with its emphasis on engaging theatre and is to be congratulated on bringing this psychotic masterpiece to life MORNING STAR A darker and more intense experience than the Oscar-winning film...Peter Prentice's portrayal Brings the story to an appalling and thrilling life...Peter Prentice's Ripley is a wonderfully tortured monster... Peter Prentice is superb as Tom Ripley. A great night out. VISITOR
Mysterious, yearning, secretive, sad, lonely, troubled, confused, loving, musical, gifted, intelligent, beautiful, tender, sensitive, haunted, passionate, talented… Who can resist Tom Ripley? Not thriller readers or movie directors, not this theatre. We are delighted to present this long-overdue stage debut of Patricia Highsmith’s handsome, smiling villain. Set in1950s Italy with its exquisitely beautiful landscapes and sparkling Mediterranean coastlines, The Talented Mr Ripley is the encounter between Ripley and playboy Richard Greenleaf. Richard’s parents have sent Tom on a mission to find their spoilt, wayward son and persuade him to return. Ripley sees his chance for money and success – can he really get away with murder? Beautifully detailed in the telling and with a host of supporting characters, The Talented Mr Ripley is a thoroughly chilling tale of deception, charm and psychopathy... Unputdownable! Highsmith’s psychological thrillers have been filmed in versions as varied as Strangers on a Train (Hitchcock), Plein Soleil (starring Alain Delon), The American Friend (Wim Wenders), Anthony Minghella’s The Talented Mr Ripley, starring Matt Damon and Jude Law, and Ripley's Game starring John Malkovich Meet the Cast Gilian Cally is delighted to be back in Lancaster after playing the Wife of Bath in The Canterbury Tales. Gilian trained at LAMDA. Her theatre credits include Paulina in the Compass Theatre Co. tour of The Winter’s Tale and Mari Hoff in The Rise and Fall of Little Voice at the Oldham Coliseum; Mansfield Park (Chichester Festival); Arkadina in The Seagull (Swan, Worcester); Ruth in The Normal Conquests (Farnham Redgrave & tour); Hermione in The Winter’s Tale and Gertrude in Hamlet (Liverpool Everyman); Bedevilled, Grapes of Wrath, Mansfield Park and many other plays at the Sheffield Crucible, and seasons at the Pitlochry Festival Theatre, Old Vic Theatre in Stoke, Nottingham Playhouse and Oldham Coliseum. TV appearances include The Scarlet Pimpernel, Seeing Red, Heartbeat, Emmerdale, Coronation Street, Medics, two series of 24Seven for CiTV, Holby City and, most recently, Angell’s Hell. Gilian also performs with a singing duo, “Stray Cats”. She lives on a smallholding in Sheffield with her husband, designer Rodney Ford, youngest son Ben, sheep and geese.
Internet links relating to Pat Highsmithwww.bbc.co.uk/films/2003/05/09/ripleys_game_2003_review.shtml some reviews of the film of Ripley’s Game http://nyny.essortment.com/patriciahighsmi_rxiu.htm www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0909719.html www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/authors/Patricia_Highsmith.htm www.kirjasto.sci.fi/highsm.htm www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/audiointerviews/profilepages/highsmithp1.shtml www.bbc.co.uk/films/2003/05/09/john_malkovich_ripleys_game_interview.shtml www.bbc.co.uk/education/asguru/generalstudies/culture/05film/film03.shtml www.bbc.co.uk/kent/films/reviews/ripley.shtml http://www.bbc.co.uk/nottingham/content/articles/2004/08/31/entertainment_theatre_and_dance_reviews_2004_08_strangers_on_a_train_event_feature.shtml http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,995440,00.html http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/books/features/story.jsp?story=409851 http://www.sbillington.com/CraigWarner.html weblinks courtesy of Michael Nunn, www.virtual-lancaster.net
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Toby Hadoke is making his first appearance at the Dukes. Previous theatre credits include Sherlock Holmes, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Loot in the main house at the Royal Exchange as well as appearing in Fire Salad and Doorway in the studio there. Also, Two (Latecomers Theatre Company), Accidental Death of an Anarchist (Edinburgh Fringe and tour), Genoveva (Opera North World Premiere, Edinburgh Festival and tour), As You Like It (Sevenoaks Drama Festival), Macbeth (Dancehouse Theatre) and Our Country’s Good (Abraham Moss Studio). TV credits include; Forsyte Saga, Building the Titanic, Coronation Street, Pheonix Nights and Always and Everyone. Toby is a well known comedian and has performed nationwide including the Comedy Store. At the 2003 Manchester Comedy Festival, he won the Les Dawson Award beating a shortlist which included Peter Kay, Johnny Vegas, Steve Coogan and Ken Dodd.
Elizabeth Jasicki will play Marge. Elizabeth has just made her West End debut at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in When Harry Met Sally playing Helen and Sally. Elizabeth’s other theatre credits include; As You Like It with The Peter Hall Company (Bath Theatre Royal/UK and USA tour), Ginny in Relatively Speaking (Middle East Tour), Ann in Man & Superman (Shaw’s Corner & UK tour), Mme de Tourvel in Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Gatehouse), title role in Jane Eyre on national tour for Channel Theatre Company and Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz (Brighton). For TV Elizabeth played Liz in Buddha of Suburbia, Kate in Vanishing Man and Kerry in Watching the Detectives.
Leigh Kelly will play Reddington. Leigh trained at LAMDA. His theatre credits include: The Warp (Roundhouse), The Sex Plays (Tour), and Pidgin Macbeth (NT/Piccadilly) for Ken Campbell; The Southwark Mysteries (Shakespeare’s Globe); Devotion (Theatre Centre); The Face at the Window (Gatehouse) and Around the World in 80 Days (Vienna’s English Theatre). Over the past year Leigh has performed in Othello (Nottingham Playhouse) and The Elves and the Shoemaker (Midland Arts Centre) both directed by Paul Savage; a tour of the Feydeau farce, Le Dindon; a Lord of the Rings Video game, as the voice of Legolas and most recently as Oliver in As You Like It at Hoghton Tower, Preston. TV includes: The Bill (ITV); Crimewatch (BBC); Tales From the Black Museum (Discovery Channel) and a commercial for the Playstation game ‘Virtual Fighter 4’.
Peter Prentice will play Tom Ripley. Peter trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. His most recent theatre credits include: Dromio of Ephesus in The Comedy of Errors for the Stafford Shakespeare Festival in the grounds of Stafford Castle, Consul Bogdanovich in The Merry Widow on tour for Carl Rosa Opera and Lt. Walter Hamilton in a workshop production/adaptation of M.M.Kaye’s The Far Pavilions. Prior to these Peter spent a year playing Freddy Eynsford-Hill in Trevor Nunn’s production of My Fair Lady at The Theatre Royal Drury Lane. Other theatre credits include; Rolf in The Sound of Music at West Yorkshire Playhouse, Alex in Aspects of Love (Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich) and understudy to Jude Law at the Royal National Theatre in Les Parents Terribles. TV work includes; Silent Witness, Berkeley Square and Emergency 999.
Piers Ronan will play Richard Greenleaf. Piers trained at Drama Centre London. Since
graduating he has worked in theatre and television. Theatre credits include: Peer Gynt (Peer Gynt), Romeo and Juliet (Paris), Amongst Friends (Vinny). His television credits include: Absolute Power with Stephen Fry (BBC).
Mario Vernazza will play Herbert Greenleaf. Mario trained at Rose Bruford and studied Commedia dell’Arte with Antonio Fava in Italy. As a member of Lighting Ensemble, a new writing group, he has performed at Soho Theatre in Losing It and Four Play. Touring theatre work includes Abigail’s Party for UK Touring Theatre, Paolo Coelho’s The Alchemist for the Cornish Theatre Collective, Nicholas Nickleby, The Man Who Was Thursday, Les Miserables, Red Princess for Red Shift Theatre and Macbeth False Memory for Actors Touring Company. Other theatre work includes The Oginski Polonaise for the Gate Theatre, Notting Hill, Same Hole Deeper at the Tobacco Factory, Bristol and Noises Off for the Brewhouse Theatre Taunton. His TV appearances include The Harringham Harker, a BBC sitcom pilot, The Stretch for Sky TV and Channel 5’s Family Affairs. Radio includes Naples 44 for BBC Radio 4.
