ACT presents
The Government Inspector
By Nikolai Gogol
- When
- Event has passed (Thu Mar 20, 2008 - Sun Apr 20, 2008)
- Cost
- $15 - $69
- Tags
- Theater, Stand Up Comedy, Performance Arts
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Description
This famous ensemble comedy by Nikolai Gogol (A.C.T.'s The Overcoat) plays out in a backwater Russian village, where government leaders and local cronies are willing to give a visiting official money, women, and whatever else he wants—just as long as he gives them a good report. But are they even greasing the right man's palms? Packed with sizzling scandal, local flavor, and politicians behaving very, very badly, The Government Inspector could easily be set in Anytown, USA.by Nikolai Gogol
Translated and adapted by Alistair Beaton
Directed by Carey Perloff
One part political parody, one part
Waiting for Guffman, and scathingly funny through and through.
Running time: 2 hours 40 minutes
"A wackily comic repast fit for a czar"
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"Gogol was a strange creature, but, then, genius is always strange."
Vladimir Nabokov
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