The Red Barn: Adapted from the novel La Main
(Paperback, Main)
Publishing Details
The Red Barn: Adapted from the novel La Main
By (Author) David Hare
Original author Georges Simenon
Faber & Faber
Faber & Faber
29th March 2017
Main
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
822.92
Physical Properties
Paperback
112
Width 156mm, Height 198mm, Spine 9mm
124g
Description
Connecticut, 1969. On their way back from a party, two couples struggle home through the snow. Not everyone arrives safely.
The great detective writer Georges Simenon escaped France at the end of World War Two, and arrived in the USA to start again. With his American wife, he settled at Shadow Rock Farm in Lakeville.
Years later, he wrote La Main, a psychological thriller set in a New England farmhouse. David Hare has taken this novel, and forged from it a startling new play. The Red Barn premiered at the National Theatre, London, in October 2016.
Author Bio
David Hare is a playwright and filmmaker. His stage plays include Plenty, Pravda (with Howard Brenton) Racing Demon, Skylight, Amy's View, Via Dolorosa, Stuff Happens, South Downs, The Absence of War and The Judas Kiss. His films for cinema and television include Wetherby, The Hours, Damage, The Reader and the Worricker trilogy: Page Eight, Turks & Caicos and Salting the Battlefield. He has written English adaptations of plays by Pirandello, Chekhov, Brecht, Schnitzler, Lorca, Gorky and Ibsen. For fifteen years he was an Associate Director of the National Theatre.
