Tolstoy In Suffolk at Studio C Artists

Greg Berman, a stage and film director, is seeking the rights to produce and direct a stage version of the classic mystery novel, "Who's That Knocking At My Door?" It turns out that the rights are owned by Brendhan Wren, an American ex-patriot living in Sussex, England. Greg travels to Sussex where he finds Wren, himself a failed writer, living in a deserted farm house on the edge of nowhere. He also discovers that the ex-pat is an abusive, bullying drunk who is capable of sudden violent outbursts. Unfortunately, Wren is not happy about signing away his rights to the novel. What ensues, on a stormy Guy Fawkes night in Sussex, is a mental wrestling match (a la SLEUTH and DEATHTRAP) a dangerous cat and mouse game between the two men and the eventual unveiling of a deeply guarded secret involving sex, art, literature, forgery and the painter Francis Bacon.