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Sep 2, 2009 · This is the poet and playwright Adrian Mitchell's version of Gogol's classic satire on human vanity with its story of a penniless nobody from Moscow who is mistaken for a government inspector by the corrupt and self-seeking officials of a small town in Tsarist Russia."The greatest artist that Russia has yet produced" Vladimir Nabokov. Print ...
THE STORY: When the locals in a small Russian hamlet learn that an undercover government inspector is coming for a surprise visit, an unfortunate case of mistaken identity sends the whole village spiraling into a world of panic and greed.
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The Government Inspector was one of the inspirations for the beloved comedy Inspecting Carol created at Seattle Repertory Theatre in 1991. A true genre mash-up, the story centers around a small theatre trying to stage A Christmas Carol when news arrives that an inspector is coming to assess whether the struggling organization will
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Jun 1, 2017 · But this “Government Inspector,” which uses a freewheeling but spiritually faithful adaptation by the American dramatist Jeffrey Hatcher, reminds us of the cathartic value of exaggerating the...
When the locals in a small Russian hamlet learn that an undercover government inspector is coming for a surprise visit, an unfortunate case of mistaken identity sends the whole village spiraling into a world of panic and greed.
When the locals in a small Russian hamlet learn that an undercover government inspector is coming for a surprise visit, an unfortunate case of mistaken identity sends the whole village spiraling...
