Gogol's Government Inspector

Overview

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 moral satire. David Harrower's version of Nikolai Gogol's Government Inspector premiered at the Warwick Arts Centre in May 2011 and transferred to Young Vic, London in June of that year.

Authors

Nikolai Gogol

Russian dramatist and novelist Nikolai Gogol, the founder of realism in Russian literature, was born in 1809 in Ukraine. He moved to St. Petersburg in 1828, where he supported himself by working as a history professor and a civil servant. In 1831, he met Alexander Pushkin and ...

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David Harrower

Playwright David Harrower was born in Edinburgh in 1966. His first play, KNIVES IN HENS, was first produced in 1995 at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh. He is also the author of the plays KILL THE OLD TORTURE THEIR YOUNG (1998), and THE CHRYSALIDS (1999), adapted from John Wyn ...

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