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'Red Rider' mixes heady brew of sweet drama and crime thriller.(Time Out!)

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From: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
Date: 20020111
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Byline: Jack Helbig

Mark Medoff's 1979 play, "When You Comin Back, Red Rider?," combines two very different kinds of plays: a sweet, slice-of-life drama about the customers of a small town diner and a taut little crime thriller, about a crazed drug runner and his dopey girlfriend who hold a handful of people hostage, again, in a small town diner.

Call it "Andy of Mayberry Meets Quentin Tarantino."

The premise is hardly original. Sherwood Anderson's 1935 play, "The Petrified Forest" does pretty much the same thing, although the resulting play, later turned into a ...

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