~playauthor~Written by~
Nikolai Gogol
,
David Harrower
~playauthor~Adapted by~
David Harrower
Faber and Faber, 2011
Faber Drama
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Acts: 5, Scenes: 28, Roles: Total (20), Female (6), Male (10), Unassigned (4)
...The news that a government inspector is due to arrive in a small Russian town sends its bureaucrats into a panicked frenzy. A simple case of mistaken identity exposes the hypocrisy and corruption at the heart of the town in this biting...
~playauthor~Written by~
Nikolai Gogol
,
Stephen Mulrine
~playauthor~Translated by~
Stephen Mulrine
Nick Hern Books, 1997
Drama Classics
playtext
Acts: 6, Roles: Total (22), Female (5), Male (17), Unassigned (0)
...Nikolai Gogol’s The Government Inspector is a classic Russian satire of provincial bureaucracy, a comedy of errors that satirises small-town political corruption and human greed. It is arguably Gogol’s best known and most popular work...