Ignatius, an overeducated, intellectual snob, at age 30 has never held a job. The play opens with a mimed scene showing Offerman in his underwear being lifted into a fat suit, dressed in a well-worn, woodsman's costume, topped by a green huntsman's cap. Appearing as Ignatius, Nick Offerman (TV's Parks and Recreation) is the not-so-secret weapon for the production, which hopes to move to Broadway. However, the intrepid Huntington Theatre Company helped commission veteran playwright Jeffrey Hatcher to adapt Toole's book and David Esbjornson to direct the project, now running in its world premiere. Reilly, the girth-challenged, self-aggrandizing, sloth-like antihero, at its center, amid a series of chaotic confrontations between the wildly eccentric characters populating New Orleans' French Quarter in the 1960s, the richly comedic book seemed both ripe for a stage interpretation and yet impossible to wrestle to the boards. It's no wonder that many have tried to transform John Kennedy Toole's cult novel A Confederacy of Dunces into a production for the stage. Nick Offerman stars in A Confederacy of Dunces, directed by David Esbjornson, at Huntington Theatre Company.
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