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The Government
Inspector

By Simon Stone with Emily Barclay; devised with the cast
Featuring a short musical by Stefan Gregory
Inspired by Nikolai Gogol
Director Simon Stone

  • Venue Upstairs Theatre
  • Dates 27 March – 18 May 2014

    A co-production with Malthouse Theatre.

    Nikolai Gogol was a nutcase. Bonkers. And in between bouts of nuttiness he just happened to write what are unquestionably the two funniest plays of the nineteenth century: The Diary of a Madman and The Government Inspector. Ever since then, actors and directors have been using his plays as a leaping off point for their own journeys into theatrical madness.

    Now, a new generation of comic geniuses sink their teeth into The Government Inspector. Under the direction of the ever-inventive Simon Stone, this ridiculous, laugh-out-loud comedy will take a mad-cap turn toward twenty-first century Australia. It may not entirely resemble the play Gogol wrote in 1836, but this new The Government Inspector is an implausible masterpiece for our implausible times. 

    Team

    By Simon Stone with Emily Barclay; devised with the cast
    Featuring a short musical by Stefan Gregory
    Inspired by Nikolai Gogol
    Director Simon Stone
    Set Designer Ralph Myers
    Costume Designer Mel Page
    Lighting Designer Paul Jackson
    Composer & Sound Designer Stefan Gregory
    Choreographer Lucy Guerin
    Stage Managers Tia Clark & Chantelle Foster
    Assistant Stage Managers Caitlin Byrne & Vanessa Martin
    Costume Secondment Hannah Koch

    Cast

    Fayssal Bazzi
    Mitchell Butel
    Gareth Davies
    Robert Menzies
    Zahra Newman
    Eryn Jean Norvill
    Greg Stone

    Production Images from Belvoir Season images by Lisa Tomasetti
    Production Images from Malthouse Season images by Pia Johnson
    Rehearsal Images images by Brett Boardman

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