Will McDonald stars in The Talented Mr Ripley at STC
For 70 years, Tom Ripley’s fictional character-error has caught an anti-hero-readers and film lovers who were uncertain and uncertain and changing shape.
The creation of the American writer Patricia Highsmith first took part in the 1955 novel Talented Mr. RipleyMongibello, who lives in New York, but who murdered and later seized the identity of Dickie Greenleaf and has become a cute house on a boat and has become a serial killer called Marge Sherwood, called Marge Sherwood, called Marge Sherwood.
Claude Scott-Mitchell and Will McDonald plays Marge and Tom Ripley in the talented Mr. Ripley of Sydney Theater Company.Credit: Steven Siewert
Ripley’s evolution is fascinating and unimaginable. The murder plan suddenly emerges as much as Greenleaf’s privileged life. Now, the most famous character of Highsmith is on the stage in the adaptation of Joanna Murray-Smith. Talented Mr. Ripley.
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Director Sarah Goodes (Julia– Who is afraid of Virginia Woolf?) With Will McDonald (HEART RISK HIGHAs Ripley, Raj Labade (Office) Dickie Greenleaf and Claude Scott-Mitchell (Dry– Last anniversary) The game as Sherwood is a sharp work of a complex man and a psychological thriller that bit nails.
“Oh, absolutely, the whole story is about tension, Goodes says: n What is your gap and answer between something. In rehearsals, we continued to talk about the true definition of tension. You were suspended between two things. In a way, the whole story Talented Mr. Ripley About that.
“Joanna wrote a rocking piece between being noir movie Third manTo be like Wes Anderson’s job, to be classic Foreigners on a train-Stile Hitchcock. There is also a direct address. It has a relationship with the audience. You learn who this is later, but Ripley really tells us the story. “
Director Sarah Goodes speaks with the cast of talented Mr. Ripley during rehearsals. Credit: Daniel Boud
But who is Ripley? The relative is sent for a trip paid by Dickie’s father to convince his son to come to New York. Dickie’s mother has leukemia and her father wants the family to take over the shipbuilding business. However, when Ripley meets Dickie, who is magnetically carefree and living luxury and cultural life on the Italian coast, he cannot follow his duty. The persecution of Greenleaf’s identity and the desire to escape from his own gloomy existence pushes him to kill him. And then, with an extraordinary hand, dickie becomes greenleaf.
“There is a gap in Tom’s center, Mc says McDonald. “This black hole swallowing Dickie and Marge and Dickie’s family.
Goodes accepts.
“This is a moral fairy tale, or he says. “If you don’t know who you are, you don’t anchor yourself or if you don’t have a moral connection to the world, you are a risk for society. This is the story of the stranger.
“If you think that you are not owing anything to the world, then you may be like Ripley. You have no regret or regret. This real surgical sensitivity and determination.”
Ripley is usually tagged as a psychopath and the highsmith, who writes 22 novels The price of salt (Then re -published Carol) And Foreigners on a train, Another murder and emotional blackmail story, clearly there was something for psychopaths. In fact, in 1943, he wrote a diary entrance and said, “Am I a psychopath?” He also mentioned Ripley as an alter ego and sometimes signed “Love from Tom” letters.
Andrew Scott shuddered as Tom Ripley in the 2024 Netflix adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s novel.Credit: Netflix
What comes to the fore with Tom Ripley – a person who will require punishment if the abuse is exposed – is that many fans of books, film and TV adaptations are a character (Andrew Scott 2024 Netflix Series Ripleyroot. This is despite identity theft, financial crimes, emotional manipulations and killing.
A duality that McDonald enjoyed.
McDonald had an interview that Tom stole the character that Tom said he wasn’t silent by his nature, and he’s not this terrible, bad person who likes to kill people. “He’s doing it for survival. He thinks that it is something he has to do to survive.”
He says Scott-Mitchell is sometimes shaken by the duality of his character.
“He says there are times when he looks and went, ‘Oh, I feel sorry for you,’ he says. “And then at other times, ‘Oh my God, I hate him.’ I love the sense of confusion about him.”
Whether he loves or hate him, ripley is a harassment. Anyone who is wondering that he is avoiding escap Ripley under waterIt was published in 1991.
But is it happy when he gets what he wants? In the 1999 film adaptation of Anthony Minghella, Matt Damon mourned the last scenes: ım I always thought that being a fake person would be better than a real person ”.
Will McDonald plays secondary Tom Ripley in talented Mr. Ripley.Credit: Daniel Boud
Scott-Mitchell, Ripley and Dorian Gray’s picture.
“When you think about it, Dorian and Tom are also fully consumed by objects and beauty, or he says. “And both are very similar.”
McDonald accepts.
“Dorian and beautiful and magnificent, but it is known as a low in London. It broke down, or he says. “His soul was destroyed by what he did, and alone is alone. Something like Tom.
“In the book, there is this wonderful moment in the process of being Greenleaf and winning everything, in which he realizes that no one can let him be closer to him by killing him.
“He will have all these beautiful things and he will live this beautiful life, but he really wants and prayed – love and intimacy – he will never get. In this sense he fails his goal.”
Claude Scott-Mitchell suspects Tom’s reasons for Tom’s talented Bay Ripley.Credit: Daniel Boud
However, it holds a mirror to people’s secret thoughts.
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“Joanna wrote the game to talk to the inner demons in all of us, SC said Scott-Mitchell. “Whether we want to admit, even if we are aware of it, we all have something ominous in our minds. You have these moments that you listen to and ‘Oh, yes, I see where it comes from.’
Most Talented Mr. Ripley’s The creative team has connections to work about Highsmith. Murray-Smith wrote the game Switzerland, A fictional view of the last years of Hightsmith’s life is now becoming a film starring Helen Mirren. In 2014, it was directed by Goods, the joint substance of the production in STC, and was designed by Scott-Mitchell’s father Michael Scott-Mitchell.
Goodes said that one of the reasons why Williams assigned Murray-Smith to adapt the work when STC is the art director of Stc is primarily to continue these connections by giving new roles to the new generation of Australian actors.
Talented Mr. Ripley (left) players: Faisal Hamza, Andrew McFarlane; Claude Scott-Mitchell, Will McDonald, Johnny Nasser and Raj Labade. Credit:
“What is about this piece is about people who are not yet fully formed,” Goodes says. “They are in their 20s. This ripley is the first murder. A murderer in other books. So emphasis was to find a group of young, surprising, new generation actor-to find the next big names on the screen and on the screen. This was a real starting point.
“Theater companies under the pressure of selling tickets, so they put the known people on stage. But you should find the next people who will be known in the future.”
In that vein, Talented Mr. Ripley He is investigating problems with new generations, especially social media, surveillance, artificial intelligence and identity theft.
“Our online identity has this mirror world, SC says Scott-Mitchell. “We may have a social media profile with a certain way to present ourselves, but then we have a body. It is a really great way to get back this concept to the theater. Who are we?
Talented Mr. Ripley Between August 19 and September 28, Sydney at the Roslyn Packer Theater; and Melbourne Art Center between 28 October – 23 November.
