The Australian actor has won warm praise for her “enigmatic” performance in David Hare’s new play The Red Barn.

Elizabeth Debicki, the exciting young Australian actor who first came to prominence as Jordan Baker in Baz Luhrmann’s 2013 film The Great Gatsby, has won critical praise for her performance in David Hare’s new play The Red Barn at the Lyttelton Theatre, Royal National Theatre in London.

^{Elizabeth Debicki as Mona in The Red Barn. Photo by Manuel Harlan.}

Hare’s play is an adaptation of Georges Simenon’s 1968 novel La Main. It is directed by Robert Icke, the wunderkind Associate Director at London Almeida’s Theatre, whose acclaimed production of 1984 comes to Sydney Theatre Company next June/July.

The Red Barn is a thriller in which two couples on the way home from a glamorous party get caught in a snow storm and have to abandon their car. Only three of them make it safely home, with Ray lost in the blizzard. When his corpse is found, the question is: was it an accident, murder or suicide?

Starring alongside Mark Strong and Hope Davis, Debicki plays the enigmatic, sexually alluring Mona Sanders, wife of...