Wed, Sep 10
|Dryden Theatre
Nuts-Wed
A prostitute indicted for manslaughter is determined to prove she is sane enough to stand trial NOTICE: This contains Adult Language and Content. These are script-in-hand performances. Produced in Partnership with CLC PAC
Time & Location
Sep 10, 2025, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Dryden Theatre, Brainerd, MN 56401, USA
About the event
Nuts
by Tom Topor
A psychological courtroom drama which explores issues of sexual abuse, family and social power dynamics, and aspects of the criminal court system. It was adapted into a film of the same name starring Barbra Streisand and Richard Dreyfuss.
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.
*** NOTICE - This is a script-in-hand performance with minimal set design. (Thi…