Confed Centre celebrates World Theatre Day with free play

The Confederation Centre of the Arts is hosting a free play reading Tuesday night in celebration of World Theatre Day.

The West End and Broadway hitOne Man, Two Guvnors by English playwright Richard Bean will be theshow of the evening. The show is sold as a slapstick comedy and, during its 2011 run on Broadway, James Cordenof The Late Late Showplayed the lead characterand was minted with Tony Award for best actor in a play.

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"This is a hysterically funny farce," said the centre's artistic director Adam Brazier."It's a beautiful celebration because it really is one of the funniest shows to be written in the last 20 years.

"This is a great way for us on the Island to get a chance to come in and hear it and laugh at the jokes and the characters and the wonderful writing."

Brazier said the show will be performed as a reading so actors will come out and performthe scripts in front of the audiences. He said it's a "wonderful opportunity to imagine a show, what it might look like, while you hear it."

The centre's Art Gallery will host the play at 7 p.m. Tuesday evening.

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