A Play, A Pie and A Pint - The Letter

By Stuart Paterson.

Father Andrey longs to find a way to help his reprobate son, and Father Fyodor is dying for a glass of vodka. If the Archdeacon can’t help them, then who can?

Adapted by Stuart Paterson from the delightfully wise and funny short story by Anton Chekhov.

Stuart Paterson His many stageplays include King of the Fields, Moon Street and new versions of Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard, Uncle Vanya, The Seagull and Three Sisters, and Strindberg’s Comrades. He has recently completed a stage adaptation of Chekhov’s story The Black Monk, and a new play Cars and Boys was staged in Spring 2014 at Dundee Repertory Theatre.

He is currently working on a screen adaptation of Doctor Glas by Hjalmar Soderberg His children’s plays, first performed at The Glasgow Citizens’ Theatre and The Edinburgh Lyceum Theatre have since been staged throughout the UK, and recently in the USA, Finland, Holland, Sweden and by Den Nationale Scene in Norway, the theatre founded by Ibsen, and by Theater Der Jugend in Vienna.