Nick Offerman to take lead in stage version of A Confederacy of Dunces

The Parks and Recreation actor and woodworking enthusiast is to take on one of US fiction’s most well-loved comic creations

Nick Offerman, the actor who gained fame as ultra-masculine moustachioed politico Ron Swanson in the TV comedy Parks and Recreation, is to play one of US fiction’s most vivid characters: Ignatius J Reilly, from John Kennedy Toole’s novel A Confederacy of Dunces.

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