This stage version of Patricia Highsmith’s 1955 novel tracks small-time con artist Tom Ripley from New York’s back-streets to the sun-washed enclaves of coastal Italy after a shipbuilding magnate hires him to retrieve his wayward son, Dickie Greenleaf.

Surrounded by jazz clubs, motorboats, and café society, Ripley grows increasingly captivated by Dickie’s moneyed ease and begins forging checks, copying mannerisms, and testing the limits of borrowed privilege. As friendship turns to fixation, Ripley’s deceptions escalate to identity theft and lethal violence, charting a meticulous study of class tension, moral ambiguity, and the allure of reinvention against a 1950s Mediterranean backdrop.