FROM THE ARCHIVES

Season: 2005-2006

16th – 24th September 2005 at 8pm The Government Inspector

By Nikolai Gogol

Directed by
Ray Newton

The corrupt officials of a small town in Tsarist Russia mistake a penniless clerk from Moscow for a government agent in Gogol’s satire on the grotesque side of human nature. A play described by Vladimir Nabokov as the greatest ever written in the Russian language.

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CAST

The Govenor

The Judge

Charity Commissioner

Dr Gibner

Schools Superintendent

Korokin

Postmistress

Waiter

Dobchinsky

Jordan Blaxhill

Police Inspector

David Wilkinson

Anna

Christine Mackinven

Marya

Osip

Khlestakov

Mishka

CREATIVE TEAM

Production Secretary

Roz Saint Clare, Pippa Cooke

Stage Manager

Sound

Prompter

Diana Wilkinson

Props & Set Dressing

Loretta Freeman, Karen Janes

Lighting

Andy Howell, Paul Morton

Wardrobe

Shelagh Maughan

Set Construction

Mike Day, The Monday-Nighters

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