Off-site: Start of Book-It Theatre run, A Confederacy of Dunces
September 16, 2009 - 7:30pm
We are proud to partner with Book-It Theatre to promote their wonderful 2009-2010 Season. Season ticket holders will receive 15% off the books that Book-It will perform.
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole September 16 – October 11, 2009
This
cult classic and comic masterpiece of the southern literary canon is
the tale of the slothful Ignatius J. Reilly, writer, cultural critic,
bastion of morality, advocate for the disenfranchised and nemesis of
industry, as he ventures out into the working world to support his
despairing mother. A kaleidoscopic cast of Big Easy characters
completes Toole’s comic masterpiece.
Location:
Book-It Reperatory Theatre 305 Harrison Street Seattle, Washington 98109
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