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The Government Inspector review " Tom Rosenthal stirs up Gogol's political satire

by Mark Lawson

Chichester Festival theatreThe standup brings his easy stage command to the role of a penniless nincompoop who tricks his way into authority in Gregory Doran's production A satire by a Ukrainian-born writer in which Russians trust a chancer who cruelly tricks them has obvious topicalities. The programme for Gregory Doran's revival of Nikolai Gogol's The Government Inspector (1836) includes a letter from a Ukrainian a…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 8:36am on May 2, 2025