The Government Inspector

Cast: 5f 20m

Staging: Multipurpose set

Amateur rights performance fee: £60 per performance (plus VAT where applicable)

Series: Drama Classics
Imprint: Nick Hern Books
Paperback, 123 pages ISBN: 9781854591746Publication Date:
6 Mar 1997
Size: 160mm x 105mm£4.99 £3.99You save £1.00 (20%)
Ebook, 123 pages ISBN: 9781780013893Publication Date:
8 Oct 2014
£4.99 £3.99You save £1.00 (20%)
First Staged:
Original version: 1836

The Government Inspector

By Nikolai Gogol Translated by Stephen Mulrine

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A classic satire of provincial bureaucracy, which only saw the stage after the personal intervention of Tsar Nicholas I.

A small, corrupt Russian town receives a letter informing them of the imminent visit of a government inspector travelling incognito. When a passing civil servant is mistaken for the inspector, panic soon sets in.

This English version of Nikolai Gogol's play The Government Inspector, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series, is translated and introduced by Stephen Mulrine.

Set Text: The Government Inspector is a set text for AQA Drama and Theatre Studies A/AS Level.

Cast: 5f 20m

Staging:Multipurpose set

Amateur rights performance fee: £60 per performance (plus VAT where applicable)

Series: Drama Classics
Imprint: Nick Hern Books
Paperback,123 pages ISBN: 9781854591746Publication Date:
6 Mar 1997
Size: 160mm x 105mm£4.99 £3.99You save £1.00 (20%)
Ebook,123 pages ISBN: 9781780013893Publication Date:
8 Oct 2014
£4.99 £3.99You save £1.00 (20%)

Also by Nikolai Gogol:

The Inspector

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Also by Stephen Mulrine:

Three Sisters
Uncle Vanya
The Wedding
The Seagull
Swansong
Chekhov: Shorts
Ghosts
The Proposal
Ivanov
The Cherry Orchard
Chekhov on Theatre
Summerfolk
The Marriage of Figaro
Chekhov: Four Plays
An Enemy of the People
The Misanthrope
The Bear
Six Characters in Search of an Author
Children of the Sun
The Dance of Death
On the Evils of Tobacco
The Game Of Love And Chance
Ibsen: Three Plays
John Gabriel Borkman
Cinzano & Smirnova's Birthday
The Servant of Two Masters
The Wild Duck
A Tragic Figure

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