The Government Inspector

by Adrian Mitchell (Adapter), Nikolai Gogol

This is the poet and playwright Adrian Mitchell's version of Gogol's classic satire on human vanity with its story of a penniless nobody from Moscow who is mistaken for a government inspector by the corrupt and self-seeking officials of a small town in Tsarist Russia."The greatest artist that Russia has yet produced" Vladimir Nabokov

Genres: Drama, Russia, Plays

45 pages, Paperback

Published May 14, 2009

About the author

Adrian Mitchell, FRSL, was an English poet, novelist and playwright. A former journalist, he became a noted figure on the British anti-authoritarian Left. For almost half a century he was the foremost poet of the country's anti-Bomb movement. The critic Kenneth Tynan called him the British Mayakovsky.

Reviews

[Michael P. · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the most perfectly constructed comedies in world theatre.