Atlanta's Theatrical Outfit has announced that they will be presenting the world premiere of A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES. The play, adapted by Tom Key from Pulitzer Prize winner John Kennedy Toole's novel, will run from August 11 to September 5.
Theatrical Outfit says of the play, "Like Shakespeare's Falstaff, Ignatius Reilly of A Confederacy of Dunces has the bombastic comic power to subvert reality and his madcap adventures in the 1960s French Quarter of New Orleans prove to be as laugh out loud hilarious as they are brilliantly revelatory of the human condition. It is a tumultuous story, filled with the truly rendered accents and dialects of New Orleans rebels. Two voices, however, dominate: a sharp-eyed omniscient narrator and the sometimes hapless and self-destructive Ignatius J. Reilly. Despite those tendencies, Reilly composes brilliant sketches of his adversaries and dramatizes a set of restrained values that contrasts dramatically with the world in which he moves, through various insignificant jobs and sometimes slapstick mishaps. These are dramatically played off against the equally untidy lives of a host of supporting characters, including his comically oppressed mother, a radicalized girlfriend who taunts him from New York, a strip-bar operator, a pants factory owner, and a Keystonian New Orleans policeman. Richard Garner, Producing Artistic Director and Co-Founder of Georgia Shakespeare Festival, directs."
On their Facebook page, Theatrical Outfit announces that Aaron Munoz will play the leading role of Ignatius Reilly. The cast also includes Kathleen McManus (Mrs. Reilly), E. Roger Mitchell (Narrator/Watson), Brik Berkes (Mr. Levy/Ensemble), Andrew Crigler (George/Ensemble), Rachel DeJulio (Waitress/Ensemble), Laura Floyd (Darlene/Myrna/Ensemble), Marianne Fraulo (Trixie/Santa/Miss Annie/Ensemble), Agnes Harty (Lana Lee/Mrs. Levy/Ensemble), Enoch King (Jones/Ensemble), Mark Kinkaid (Sergeant/Ensemble), Eric Mendenhall (Gonzales/Ensemble), William S. Murphey (Claude/Clyde/Ensemble), Andrew Puckett (Dorian/Ensemble), Scott Warren (Mancuso) and Mary Wolfson (Miss Inez/Ensemble).
For more information about the production, visit www.theatricaloutfit.org.
