Performances / Szigligeti Company / 2024-2025
N. V. Gogol
The Government Inspector
Translated by:: Szilágyi Ákos, Fehér Balázs Benő
Seeking happiness while falling. Gogol's The Government Inspector is not just a dark, twisted portrait of corruption and power. The politicians of a small Russian town sense their impending doom, which begins a dance of death depicted with grotesque humour. However, in the extremes of the town leadership awaiting doomsday, we can glimpse a psychological trajectory of the modern man’s self-exculpation. Hlesztakov, a drifting traveller, is merely seeking respectability, but in this world of pretence, he soon discovers how easily the coveted respect can become the birthplace of misuse. Gogol holds up a distorted mirror to us. Then the reflection grins back at us. Then it speaks.
►The play is not recommended for minors under 14 years old.
►The play lasts 2 hours and 30 minutes (with 1 interval).
Cast of characters:
ANTON ANTONOVICH, The Governor or Mayor
ANNA ANDREYEVNA, his wife
MARYA ANTONOVNA, his daughter
LUKA LUKICH Khlopov, Director of Schools
AMMOS FYODOROVICH Lyapkin Tyapkin, a Judge
ARTEMI PHILIPPOVICH Zemlyanika, Warden of the Hospital
IVANA KUZMICH Shpyokin, a Secretary
Pyotr Ivanovich DOBCHINSK, .independent gentleman
Pyotr Ivanovich BOBCHINSK, independent gentleman
IVAN ALEXANDROVICH KHLESTAKOV, a Government civil servant
Svistunov, a Police Superintendent.
Vlas, Waiter
Olga, citizen
Dr Christian Ivanovich HUBNER, a Doctor
Civil servant
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Premier: 2024.11.03
