NUTS by Tom Topor

The Barnstable Comedy Club proudly presents NUTS, a riveting courtroom drama by Tom Topor. This real US legal case is directed by Linda M. Stevens. The show opens on Thursday, May 2 at 7:30 PM and continues through May 19 with performances on Friday and Saturday evenings at 7:30 PM and Sunday matinees at 2:30 PM. General admission tickets are $25 / $23 for seniors 65+ and students and may be purchased online at www.barnstablecomedyclub.org or reserved by calling the box office at 508-362-6333. This play contains adult content and is for mature audiences.

The cast includes veteran Cape actors Theresa D. Cedrone, Steve Ross, Frank Hughes, Jr., Larry Lickteig and features Hub Mathewson, Rob Thorne, Michael Gillis, Lee LaCroix and Lizzy Smythe.

A Broadway hit, NUTS has been called the best courtroom melodrama since Witness for the Prosecution and The Caine Mutiny Court Martial. Set in a courtroom in New York’s Bellevue Hospital, the story follows a high-priced call girl incarcerated on a charge for killing a violent “john”. The State, represented by a court appointed psychiatrist and an aggressive prosecutor, say Claudia Faith Draper is unfit to stand trial. As testimony from experts, physicians and her parents unfolds, with her psyche and childhood dissected, she proves to the judge that she isn’t “nuts” and stands legally sane at trial for manslaughter.