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NIKOLAI GOGOL (1809 - 1852) |
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Nikolai Gogol was born in Sorchintsy in Ukraine in 1809. After a brief spell in government service in St Petersburg, he won fame as a short story writer, and in 1836, his satirical comedy The Government Inspector created such a furore that Gogol left Russia to settle in Rome, in self-imposed exile. Marriage, revised from an eariler draft titled The Suitors, was first performed in 1842 and The Gamblers, Gogol's only other completed play, was premiered in 1843. Gogol published the first part of his great picaresque novel Dead Souls in 1842, but religious mania in his later years caused him to destroy its sequel and contributed to his early death in Moscow in 1852.
Adaptation / Translations of Plays by Nikolai Gogol
Diary Of A Madman, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1988 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #43667 | |||
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Genre: | One Man Show | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 0 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Nikolai Gogol. Adapted by Colin Wakefield and Terence Beesley from a literal translation by Lindsey Hughes | |||||
Synopsis: | Adaptation of Nikolai Gogol's hilarious but tragic short story of a man's rapid descent into a fantasy world of talking dogs, delusions of grandeur and the Spanish Inquisition. Set in nineteenth century St. Petersburg, Poprishkin, a 'positively reptilian' quill-sharpening clerk, is obsessively and hopelessly infatuated with the Director's daughter. | |||||
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Diary of a Madman | ||
| 1st Produced: | Brockley Jack Studio Theatre, 410 Brockley Road, Brockley, London SE4 2DH >>> | 41877 | ||||
Company: | Ballast Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | lulu.com | ISBN/ASIN: | 9781471660009 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #161296 | |||
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Genre: | adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Nikolai Gogol | |||||
| He is a clerk; he feels himself to be a great man; others do not; between this gap his madness grows. Gogol's classic short story adapted for the stage and transported to London. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Diary Of A Madman, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1988 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #43676 | |||
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Genre: | One Man Show | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 0 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Nikolai Gogol. Adapted by Colin Wakefield and Terence Beesley from a literal translation by Lindsey Hughes | |||||
Synopsis: | Adaptation of Nikolai Gogol's hilarious but tragic short story of a man's rapid descent into a fantasy world of talking dogs, delusions of grandeur and the Spanish Inquisition. Set in nineteenth century St. Petersburg, Poprishkin, a 'positively reptilian' quill-sharpening clerk, is obsessively and hopelessly infatuated with the Director's daughter. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Don't Touch Him, He Might Resent It | ||
| 1st Produced: | Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire | 1984 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Plays 1" Oberon, London, 1999 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #21037 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 | ||
Parts other: | 9 characters | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Nikolai Gogol | |||||
Synopsis: |
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Gamblers, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 22 Oct 2014 | |||||
Company: | Greyscale/Dundee Rep/Northern Stage/Stellar Quines | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #167065 | |||
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Genre: | adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Nikolai Gogol. Adapted by Selma Dimitrijevic and Mikhail Durnenkov | |||||
Synopsis: | In the world of The Gamblers there is no mercy. This new all-female version is a story of women who gamble, hustle, cheat, drink, swear, sing and dance. And never apologise for it. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Gamblers, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 22 Oct 2014 | |||||
Company: | Greyscale/Dundee Rep/Northern Stage/Stellar Quines | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #167066 | |||
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Genre: | adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Nikolai Gogol. Adapted by Selma Dimitrijevic and Mikhail Durnenkov | |||||
Synopsis: | In the world of The Gamblers there is no mercy. This new all-female version is a story of women who gamble, hustle, cheat, drink, swear, sing and dance. And never apologise for it. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Gamblers | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1987 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #15437 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 0 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Nikolai Gogol. written by Christopher Rathbone and Chris Hannan | |||||
Synopsis: | Con-men take on a con-man and strip him of his pile and his reason.. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Gamblers | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1987 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #46916 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 0 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Nikolai Gogol. written by Christopher Rathbone and Chris Hannan | |||||
Synopsis: | Con-men take on a con-man and strip him of his pile and his reason.. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Gamblers, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Gogol Three Plays" published by Methuen | ISBN/ASIN: | 9780413733405 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #107993 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Nikolai Gogol | |||||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Government Inspector | ||
| 1st Produced: | 09 Jun 2011 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0571280490 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #124643 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Nikolai Gogol | |||||
| 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. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Government Inspector | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Nelson Thornes 1980 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0333284902 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #142381 | |||
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Genre: | Youth play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Nikolai Gogol | |||||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Government Inspector, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | 07 Sep 2012 | |||||
Company: | Northern Broadsides | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1408173633 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #144068 | |||
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Genre: | adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 13 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | doubling possible | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Nikolai Gogol | |||||
| This version of A Government Inspector is a Yorkshire take on Gogol's 1836 fantastical Russian satire. The setting is here transposed to a small northern town in the twenty-first century, geographically and culturally remote from the centre of government. Into a small Pennine town a mysterious stranger is mistaken for a government inspector. Fearing discovery of their corrupt goings-on, the town's unscrupulous councillors attempt to ingratiate themselves. Bribes, backhanders and brown envelopes abound, and the young chap, who has an eye for a quick buck, takes full advantage with hilarious results. Deborah McAndrew's version of A Government Inspector goes beyond literal translation, but is absolutely faithful to Gogol's stated intention to peel away the surface layers of ordinary people and expose the corruption beneath. It's exuberant, brilliantly witty and original, and audiences will revel in the references to government officials' expenses claims and women's beach volley ball... | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Government Inspector, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Chichester Festival | 2005 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Oberon Books, London, 2005 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #53576 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 | ||
Parts other: | large cast | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Nikolai Gogol. | |||||
Synopsis: | One of the most famous comedies in world theatre, Gogol's masterpiece has lost none of its bite. In a small town corruption is rife, and the Mayor and his cronies have got it made. So when they learn they are going to be subject to an undercover government inspection they panic. Mistaking a penniless nobody for the inspector they swiftly fall victims to their own stupidity and greed. A dazzling blend of preposterous characters and familiar situations, Nabokov called 'The Government Inspector' the greatest play in the Russian language. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Government Inspector, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1966 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Eyre methuen, london, 1968 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #4820 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 21 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Nikolai Gogol | |||||
Synopsis: | set in Yorkshire in the winter of 1946-47a penniless nobody from Moscow is mistaken for a government inspector by the corrupt officials of a small town in Tsarist Russia | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Government Inspector, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1997 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Oberon Books | ISBN/ASIN: | 9781840020298 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #5624 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 12 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Nikolai Gogol | |||||
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Government Inspector, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Heinemann 1989 | ISBN/ASIN: | 9780435209636 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #98083 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Nikolai Gogol | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Government Inspector, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Jack Studio Theatre, London | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #191016 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Nikolai Gogol | |||||
Synopsis: | 1979 a letter arrives at a small town council chambers telling them that a government inspector will be arriving incognito to investigate corruption | |||||
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Government Inspector, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | lulu.com | ISBN/ASIN: | 9781326551353 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #189270 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Nikolai Gogol | |||||
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Government Inspector, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 24 Nov 2011 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #148472 | |||
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Genre: | adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 20 | Female | 7 | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Nikolai Gogol | |||||
Synopsis: | The Mayor, the Judge, the Chief of Police and a host of the crooked characters are in an awful tailspin as a visit from a government inspector looms large on their town. Its all brown envelopes and bribes as this befuddled group frantically try to keep the show on the road at all costs. But could a case of mistaken identity sabotage their efforts? - http://www.irishplayography.com/play.aspx?playid=3755 | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Government Inspector, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Plays and Petersburg Tales" published by Oxford University Press 1995 | ISBN/ASIN: | 9780199555062 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #98084 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Nikolai Gogol | |||||
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Government Inspector, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Salisbury: Playhouse,England, EUR and on tour in South of England >>> | 1995 | ||||
Company: | Forest Forge Theatre Company/Salisbury Playhouse | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #14120 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Nikolai Gogol. Also produced at Watermill Theatre Newbury in 1996 with 9 actors. | |||||
Synopsis: | New version of Gogol's classic comedy re-set in a market town in 1860. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Government Inspector, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Tyrone Guthrie Theater Company, in Minneapolis | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, Inc (2009) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-8222-2337-5 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #104698 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 7 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Nikolai Gogol | |||||
Synopsis: | When the locals in a small Russian hamlet learn that an undercover government inspector is coming for a surprise visit, an unfortunate case of mistaken identity sends the whole village spiraling into a world of panic and greed. Witty, smart and wildly satirical, this timely and spirited adaptation of Nikolai Gogol's classic play exposes the corruption of a provincial town with biting hilarity. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Government Inspector, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1970 | |||||
Company: | Cinoherni Club of Prague | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #44915 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 18 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Nikolai Gogol | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Government Inspector, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Shaw Theatre, 100 - 110 Euston Road, London, London NW1 2AJ >>> | 15 Aug 2012 | ||||
Company: | Axting Gymnasium | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #143553 | |||
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Genre: | adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Nikolai Gogol | |||||
Synopsis: | A mysterious man washes up in a corrupt town and is mistaken for the much-feared government inspector. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Government Inspector, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Nottingham | 1974 | ||||
Company: | RSC | |||||
| 1st Published: | Methuen, London >>>, 1968 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #24380 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 21 | Female | 6 | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Nikolai Gogol | |||||
| set in Yorkshire in the winter of 1946-47a penniless nobody from Moscow is mistaken for a government inspector by the corrupt officials of a small town in Tsarist Russia | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record Volume XXXI Issue 06 Page 326 | |||||
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Government Inspector, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Union, London | 2004 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Gogol Three Plays" published by Methuen | ISBN/ASIN: | 9780413733405 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #48558 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 12 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Nikolai Gogol | |||||
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Government Inspector, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Still Laughing", Talon Books,Canada (15 Oct 2009) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0889226241 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #158245 | |||
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Genre: | translation | |||||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Nikolai Gogol. The universal mark of good satire is still to make audiences laugh at the worst traits in human nature. Here, in his own words, is how Morris Panych updated these three great comedy classics from a century ago: | |||||
| The Government Inspector is peopled with the most duplicitous, under-handed, and shifty characters ever to appear in literature; yet, they are funny. I made the lead character Khlestakov and his companion Osip former members of an acting troupe, to open up the fourth wall of the theatre. Inspired by Gogol himself, who has the characters speak to the audience directly in the last scene, this is not really a post-modern indulgence, but part of a long theatrical tradition of direct audience address. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Government Inspector, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Tyrone Guthrie Theater Company, in Minneapolis | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #28731 | |||
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Genre: | comedy Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 20 | Female | 8 | ||
Parts other: | plus extras, many of the male roles are bit parts | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Nikolai Gogol | |||||
Synopsis: | The corrupt, squabbling bureaucrats of a provincial Russian hamlet are suddenly shocked to learn that a Government Inspector is about to pay them a visitincognito. In this panic they jump to the conclusion that a young stranger recently arrived at the hotel is the Inspector, and they set out to woo him with hospitality, bribes and even the hand of the major's daughter. Actually the young visitor is a penniless clerkbut he is more than willing to accept, with no little cynicism, the largesse which is suddenly showered on him. When their error is discovered the local officials fall to squabbling again, this time over who is to blame for their costly mistake, only to be interrupted by the ominous news that the real Government Inspector has arrived and requests their immediate presence in the name of the Emperor! | |||||
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Government Inspector, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Winchester Prison, Winchester, Hants, UK | 27 Apr 2010 | ||||
Company: | Playing for Time Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #136665 | |||
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Genre: | adaptation/Farce | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 12 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | 6 small roles that can be played by m or f | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Nikolai Gogol. An adaptation (lasting about an hour and fifteen minutes) of the classic Russian farce by Nikolai Gogol. Includes 5 specially written songs (music available). | |||||
| Incompetent and corrupt officials in a small provincial town are thrown into a panic when they learn that a Government Inspector is to visit, perhaps incognito. When Klestakoff, a well-dressed rogue, arrives with his streetwise servant, he quickly realises that the townsfolk imagine he is the Inspector and takes advantage of the officials' bribes and flattery. No sooner have the townsfolk discovered their mistake - just as Klestakoff leaves - than the real Inspector appears. This adaptation has an sting in the tail that gives another twist to the themes of disguise and mistaken identity. | |||||
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Government Inspector, The (Ala Afsur) | ||
| 1st Produced: | Tara Arts Centre, london | 1989 | ||||
Company: | Tara Arts Group | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #76622 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Nikolai Gogol | |||||
Synopsis: | an Indian-English adaptation brilliantly located in a small Hindi speaking town just after independence | |||||
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Inspector | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Inspector and Other Plays" French, New York, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #2932 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 15 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Nikolai Gogol | |||||
Synopsis: | a penniless nobody from Moscow is mistaken for a government inspector by the corrupt officials of a small town in Tsarist Russia | |||||
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Inspector General | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Echo Library 2006 | ISBN/ASIN: | 9781847022837 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #98085 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Nikolai Gogol | |||||
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Inspector General, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #717 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 15 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Nikolai Gogol | |||||
Synopsis: | a penniless nobody from Moscow is mistaken for a government inspector by the corrupt officials of a small town in Tsarist Russia | |||||
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Inspector General, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #157119 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Nikolai Gogol | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Inspector, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | Harvest Theatre Company (Whyalla, S. Aust.) | |||||
| 1st Published: | Sydney : Currency Press in association with Harvest Theatre Company, 1987 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #90937 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 | ||
Parts other: | large cast | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Nikolai Gogol (The government Inspector) | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Little Local Difficulty, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | Oldham Coliseum | 2003 | ||||
Company: | Oldham Coliseum | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #14123 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Nikolai Gogol | |||||
Synopsis: | Northern adaptation of Gogol's classic comedy The Government Inspector | |||||
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Marriage | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1984 | |||||
Company: | Shared Experience | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #435 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Nikolai Gogol, version by Mike Alfreds from literal translation by Boris Isarov | |||||
Synopsis: | t hearted account of Russia's 19th century marriage farce. | |||||
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Marriage | ||
| 1st Produced: | Brockley Jack Studio Theatre, 410 Brockley Road, Brockley, London SE4 2DH >>> | 41814 | ||||
Company: | Ballast Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | lulu.com | ISBN/ASIN: | 9781291559255 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #161297 | |||
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Genre: | adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Nikolai Gogol | |||||
| He wants to get married; and he doesn't want to get married he doesn't know what to do. But he has a friend who knows what's best for everyone. Marriage is Gogol's absurd farce about desire, matchmakers, Imperial Russian speed dating and much else besides. | |||||
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Marriage | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #11586 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Nikolai Gogol | |||||
Synopsis: | Deciding that it is time he was married, Podkoliosin, a long-time bachelor (and minor court councillor), engages a matchmaker, Fiolka, to find him a wife of suitable social statusnot to mention fortune. Fiolka comes up with Agafya, the spinster daughter of a wealthy merchant, who is seeking a husband of demonstrably higher social position. Podkoliosin deigns to visit the charming Agafya, only to discover that the bustling Fiolka has rounded up four other suitors as well, which leads to some unseemlyand hilariousbickering among the preening competitors. The suitors are all quite different (one enormously fat, one painfully skinny, one terribly tiny, another notoriously prissy), which enriches the farcical contretemps that resultand adds to the relish with which Podkoliosin's sidekick, the scheming Kochkariev, sets about winning Agafya for his friend. In the end he succeeds, but perhaps too well, as he also provides Podkoliosin with a glimpse of what marriage really entails and, as the curtain falls, the terrified would-be suitor makes his escapeleaping unceremoniously from a second story window and back to the comforting routine of blissful bachelorhood. | |||||
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Marriage | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #157120 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Nikolai Gogol | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Marriage | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1984 | |||||
Company: | Shared Experience | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #66975 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Nikolai Gogol, version by Mike Alfreds from literal translation by Boris Isarov | |||||
Synopsis: | t hearted account of Russia's 19th century marriage farce. | |||||
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Marriage | ||
| 1st Produced: | Coventry: Belgrade Theatre, Belgrade Square, Coventry CV1 1GS >>> | 02 Feb 2013 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #146985 | |||
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Genre: | adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Nikolai Gogol | |||||
Synopsis: | Summer's coming in St Petersburg and blushing bride-to-be, Agafya, has a string of suitors lined up for her by the local matchmaker but how can she decide which one to pick? Ivan wants to get married but how long will he take to pop the question once he's made up his mind? Ivan's best friend, Ilya, driven to distraction by all the dithering, vows to take charge and force his hand wiping out the competition from the other suitors and making sure the day ends with wedding bells ringing. But will his cunning plan succeed? | |||||
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Marriage, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Plays and Petersburg Tales" published by Oxford University Press 1995 | ISBN/ASIN: | 9780199555062 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #107994 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Nikolai Gogol | |||||
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Marriage, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Gogol Three Plays" published by Methuen | ISBN/ASIN: | 9780413733405 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #107995 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Nikolai Gogol | |||||
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Notes Of A Madman, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1994 | |||||
Company: | Ivan Franko State Drama Theater | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #95514 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Nikolai Gogol | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Ottawa Man, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Crest Theatre, Toronto | 1961 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #24680 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Nikolai Gogol, televised 1958 | |||||
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Overcoat | ||
| 1st Produced: | C venues - C, Edinburgh Festival Fringe | Aug 2013 | ||||
Company: | International Theater Ensemble (Taiwan and USA) | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #153878 | |||
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Genre: | international, physical theatre 1 hour 15 minutes | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Nikolai Gogol | |||||
Synopsis: | Poetic expression of Nikolai Gogols classic in the era of internet technology. Multimedia cross-border performance. Original combination of Chinese theatrical traditions and music with modern European physical theatre and contemporary projection technologies. Combines modern dance and narration, Chinese opera instruments and smartphone applications. Directed by acclaimed Russian-American director Oleg Liptsin. Theatre without borders! | |||||
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Overcoat, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Brockley Jack Studio Theatre, 410 Brockley Road, Brockley, London Se4 2DH >>> | 40562 | ||||
Company: | assembly Point Productions. | |||||
| 1st Published: | lulu.com | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1409294849 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #133778 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Nikolai Gogol | |||||
| Bashmachkin's desperate struggle with poverty in a society defined by possessions is particularly resonant in the midst of Britain's current economic climate, and with his scrupulous and scathing realism as well as philosophical depth, Gogol is still considered one of the greatest ever satirists. the company offers a faithful and culturally authentic interpretation of Nikolai Gogol's absurdist satire, one of Russia's most important texts, which has inspired Russian writers from Nabokov to Dostoyevsky | |||||
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