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  1. Sep 22, 2016 · Murray-Smith uses it all to create an unforgettable character. The play opens on a sick and ageing Highsmith (Sarah Peirse), long since retreated into the isolation of her Swiss bunker.

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  2. May 12, 2024 · The play pits the brilliant, irascible crime writer Patricia Highsmith who is living in her retreat in Switzerland with Edward a young man from her publishing house who visits her to try and persuade her to write another Mr Ripley novel.

  3. Oct 13, 2023 · We review Stages' production of Joanna Murray-Smith's Switzerland about an ambitious assistant who goes to the home of Patricia Highsmith to persuade her to write another Mr. Ripley novel.

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  5. Nov 11, 2014 · Switzerland, the new two-hander from Australian playwright Joanna Murray-Smith, is not so much an adaptation as an act of homage by way of larceny, appropriating Highsmith the real person as...

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  6. May 3, 2024 · With Toni Scanlan (Belvoir’s THE WEEKEND) as Patricia Highsmith, renowned Australian playwright Joanna Murray-Smith (HONOUR) weaves a torrid web of wit and mystery in this gripping psychological thriller.

  7. May 13, 2024 · In any event, this is good timing for Ensemble Theatre’s production of Switzerland, Joanna Murray-Smith’s play about Highsmith. The play opens in Highsmith’s Swiss chalet where Edward Ridgeway, a young employee of Highsmith’s New York publishing house has travelled to meet her.

  8. Dec 6, 2018 · Joanna Murray-Smith's play Switzerland is a gripping psychological thriller, filled with razor-sharp dialogue. It was first performed at the Sydney Opera House in 2014. The play received its UK premiere at the Ustinov Studio, Theatre Royal Bath, in 2018, before transferring to the Ambassadors Theatre in London's West End.

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