Nuts

Nuts

Overview

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.

Authors

Tom Topor

Tom Topor is an American playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. He earned his bachelor's degree at Brooklyn College in 1961. Topor is the author of the 1980 play and 1987 screenplay "Nuts," which became a starring vehicle for Barbra Streisand. He also wrote the screenplay fo ...
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