ACADEMIA NUTS

Redbud Theatre's upcoming production of Academia Nuts is farce, mystery, and love story all rolled into one riotous evening! Academia Nuts was first performed on July 28, 1994 at the Brooke Hills Playhouse in West Virginia under the direction of the author, Gregg Kreutz. Brian Bottemiller directs our local production. Professor Peter Smedforson (played by Roland Grubb) lives in a quiet New England college town, in the former home of poet E.R. Lennox whose writings are the subject of his scholarly life's work. Reclusive Peter finds his sedate life is suddenly turned upside down when he is invaded by Tammi (Libby Pinto), a free spirit from Atlantic City whose luck has run out, by Judith (Vicki Kurtz), another Lennox scholar determined to unearth a lost manuscript in his home, and by Stewart (Brian Bottemiller), Judith's reprehensible ex-husband who is trying to beat her to the manuscript. Peter is confronted with house breakers, mistaken identities, hide and seek chases and unexpected romance. The discovery of the manuscript and the revelation of its surprising secret provide a hilarious climax to this urbane and quick witted comedy by the author of the popular farce Bottoms.