The Government Inspector (Hatcher)
by Jeffrey Hatcher, Nikolai Gogol

"A comedy of galumphing, harrumphing hilarity. One part farce, one part slapstick, with a dash of musical theater, this naughty, frothy play is wholly entertaining. A clever, fearless script… the characters feel contemporary in a show where official ignorance and incompetence are compounded by corruption and hubris."

— Minneapolis Star Tribune

"A first-rate farce. Hatcher is an inspired choice to take a fresh run at this material, not least because his writing is so consistently deft and funny, swinging wildly in tone from one line to the next… a mountain of firecracker witticisms."

— CityPages

"Critic’s Pick! “Corruption, bribery, bottomless vanity, sexual predatoriness and incivility to all, excepting those more powerful than you — such are the ways of human nature in the muddy little backwater in which Gogol’s play is set. This Government Inspector, which uses a freewheeling but spiritually faithful adaptation by the American dramatist Jeffrey Hatcher, reminds us of the cathartic value of exaggerating the already grotesque."

— The New York Times