At first, I was a bit confused by the play's title. After all, David Hare gave his 1998 adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler's La Ronde the moniker of The Blue Room, which coincidentally is the same title as Mathieu Amalric's very recent adaptation of a thriller by Georges Simenon. Now Hare has taken another Simenon thriller, La Main, and called it The Red Barn, which immediately suggests the murder of Maria Marten in 182…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:56PM on October 17, 2016