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...

Nick Hern Books, 1997

Drama Classics

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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...

Theatre Communications Group, 2014

TCG Classic Russian Drama Series

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Acts: 5, Scenes: 51, Roles: Total (20), Female (5), Male (15), Unassigned (0)

...A revelatory new translation of Gogol’s biting masterpiece by American playwright Richard Nelson, in collaboration with the foremost contemporary translators of classic Russian literature, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky...