The Government Inspector

The bureaucrats in a remote provincial town are panicking. Word has gone round that a bigwig government inspector is heading their way. And for a start, the hospital’s hopeless, the post office has gone to pot, and the streets are filthy.

So when they discover the inspector is already staying at the inn, incognito, the whole town lavishes flattering attention on him. This suits ‘the inspector’ just fine, since in reality he’s a lowly and broke government pen-pusher, nursing extravagant fantasies of fame and fortune…

Gogol’s brilliantly inventive 19th century satire of skulduggery, mistaken identity and human absurdity spirals into dizzying levels of comic hysteria. Actor and comedian Tom Rosenthal (Friday Night Dinner, Plebs) stars.