The Red Barn is a rare theatrical thriller " why aren't there more? by Lyn Gardner

Few playwrights take the thriller genre seriously: David Hare is an exception. The National's staging of his Simenon adaptation explores how theatre itself manipulates what we seeThe ancient Greeks were very good at writing thrillers. Sophocles's Oedipus Rex fits the whodunnit mould, with the audience way ahead of the protagonist, who is unwittingly investigating his own guilt. The absurdist playwright Eugène Ionesc…

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