Hartnett Joins Spacey's OLD VIC 24 Hour Plays Gala

International news service WENN reports that Kevin Spacey has enlisted fellow film actor Josh Hartnett to perform at London's 24 Hour Plays Gala.

Spacey has assembled an all-star cast to take part in the annual event, which has celebrities tackle the task of rehearsing and performing six new plays in just 24 hours.

London's Old Vic theatre - of which Spacey is the artistic director - will host the event which will be part of a fundraising event that kicks off on November 30^th.

Hartnett - who is currently starring in the West End production of Rain Man - will team up with writers, directors and fellow performers to pen, cast and then rehearse the scenes before they take to the stage in front of an audience the very same day.

Other stars who will take part in the event include theatre actor Henry Goodman, Love Actually star Martin Freeman, and Bionic Woman actress Michelle Ryan.

Kevin Spacey is Artistic Director of The Old Vic Theatre Company. He directed its inaugural production Cloaca, before appearing in National Anthems, The Philadelphia Story, Richard II and A Moon for the Misbegotten, which subsequently transferred to the Brooks Atkinson Theater New York, and most recently in Speed-the-Plow with Jeff Goldblum. Previous theatre includes The Iceman Cometh (Evening Standard and Olivier Awards for Best Actor, and Tony Award nomination) directed by Howard Davies (Almeida, The Old Vic and Broadway); Lost in Yonkers (Tony Award, Best Supporting Actor); Long Day's Journey into Night, with Jack Lemmon, directed by Jonathan Miller (Broadway and West End).

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