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- y The Inspector! Sydney Whyalla : Currency Press Harvest Theatre Company , 1987 Z572712 1987 single work drama humour
- The Government Inspector May-Brit Akerholt (translator), Neil Armfield (translator), Lech Mackiewicz (translator), Geoffrey Rush (translator), 1990-1999 single work drama satire humour
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The Government Inspector
2014
single work
drama
humour
'Nikolai Gogol was a nutcase. Bonkers. And in between bouts of nuttiness he just happened to write what are unquestionably the two funniest plays of the nineteenth century: The Diary of a Madman and The Government Inspector. Ever since then, actors and directors have been using his plays as a leaping off point for their own journeys into theatrical madness.
'Now, a new generation of comic geniuses sink their teeth into The Government Inspector. Under the direction of the ever-inventive Simon Stone, this ridiculous, laugh-out-loud comedy will take a mad-cap turn toward twenty-first century Australia. It may not entirely resemble the play Gogol wrote in 1836, but this new The Government Inspector is an implausible masterpiece for our implausible times.'
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The Government Inspector is included in AustLit because of Australian adaptations.