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The Government Inspector
OPEN 09/11/2022 - 12/11/2022
Venue Name: Rondo Theatre. St. Saviours Road, BATH, BA1 6RT
Venue Postcode: BA16RT
Website: https://www.playing-up.co.uk/the-government-inspector
Credits: Written by Nikolai Gogol & Adapted by David Harrower
Box Office phone number: 0333 666 3366
Societies: Playing Up Theatre Company
Gogol’s deeply silly satire of small-town corruption offers a riotous portrait of rampaging self-delusion. When the crooked leadership of a provincial village discovers that an undercover inspector is coming to root out their commonplace corruption, the town weaves a web of bribery, lies, and utter madness. This biting satirical presentation of David Harrower’s adaptation offers a hilarious reminder of the terrifying timelessness of bureaucracy and buffoonery.
“It’s rare that a full-length narrative play is quite as merciless to every one of its characters as this is. “The Government Inspector,” which sealed Gogol’s reputation as a major Russian writer when it was published in 1836, presents a world in which nobody is free from the taint of ravenous self-interest…”
New York Times 2017
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