An excitingly talented British playwright, Peter Barnes, 40, has appeared on the transatlantic scene. His first play, The Ruling Class, is having its U.S. premiere in the handsome 500-seat Kreeger Theater that is making its own debut as part of Washington, D.C.'s Arena Stage. Encountering Barnes is somewhat like fencing in a Noel Coward drawing room while seething with the stomach-pit anger of the early John Osborne, and then leaving the room for a short session in the late Joe Orton's black-comic vomitorium. What remains as the distinguishing mark of Barnes himself? An...
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