The Government Inspector
by Nikolai Gogol

"Unrelentingly hilarious…two hours of glorious, unbridled silliness.” —WhatsOnStage.    “Devilishly funny adaptation.”—Radio Times.    “Patrick Myles has re-imagined Gogol’s THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR solidly in the farce tradition…There are pratfalls galore."

— The Reviews Hub

"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

"…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.” —Star Tribune (Minneapolis). “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