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Thu Mar 20 - Sun Apr 20

ACT presents

The Government Inspector

By Nikolai Gogol


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$15 - $69
Tickets

Location
Date and Time
American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.)
415 Geary St.
San Francisco, CA 94102 map
cross street: Mason
district: Union Square/San Francisco Centre

Thu Mar 20 (8 pm) - Preview
Fri Mar 21 (8 pm) - Preview
Sat Mar 22 (2 pm and 8 pm) - Previews
Tue Mar 25 (8 pm) - Koret Prologue
Wed Mar 26 (8 pm) - Opening Night

Description
This famous ensemble comedy by Nikolai Gogol (A.C.T.'s The Overcoat) plays out in a backwater Russian village, where government leaders and local cronies are willing to give a visiting official money, women, and whatever else he wants—just as long as he gives them a good report. But are they even greasing the right man's palms? Packed with sizzling scandal, local flavor, and politicians behaving very, very badly, The Government Inspector could easily be set in Anytown, USA.

by Nikolai Gogol
Translated and adapted by Alistair Beaton
Directed by Carey Perloff

One part political parody, one part
Waiting for Guffman, and scathingly funny through and through.

Running time: 2 hours 40 minutes

"A wackily comic repast fit for a czar"
Time

"Gogol was a strange creature, but, then, genius is always strange."
Vladimir Nabokov