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comedy
Comedy Genre

Meyerhold & Gogol

Ревизор (English, my translation/adaptation)

Summary

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Gogol, Nikolai (1809-1852) Commedia-Shake
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Notes

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Gogol Intro

N. V. Gogol (1809-1852)
Russian novelist, playwright and short-essay writer. Gogol is recognized as one of the richest writers in Russian literature from the point of view of the imaginativeness and stylistic richness of his work. Gogol's choice of everyday life as the basis of much of his work had a profound effect on the future of Russian literature, although the degree and the purposes of his realism, as interpreted by Belinsky and later radical critics, are doubtful. Whether he intended or not, Gogol's work was held up as a model for later Russian writers, who turned their attention to a sympathetic observation and realistic description of the lower levels of Russian society. [p. 408-409]
source: Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia
The Inve$tor General

New translation and adaptation by Anatoly Antohin

UAF Fall 1991

Based on "The Inspector General" by Gogol

[ text is @ filmplus.org/plays/investor ]

Ревизор-Аляска

1991

ACT 1: NEWS

SCENE 1: Secret Meeting

(MAYOR, SUPER, JUDGE, DIRECTOR are in the room. Voice on the tape "English for Beginners": "And now lets sing together! Ready? "Old Mcdonald had a farm..." Mayor sings, others follow).

MAYOR (Turns off the tape player): I have invited you all here to tell you -- it's coming.

JUDGE: What?

DIRECTOR: Who?

MAYOR: Money. Greenbacks! But secretly.

ALL: Money!? Secretly? From where?

MAYOR: Let me show you a fax I've received from my friend in Moscow. (Reads) "An American businessman has arrived to investigate all of Siberia, and your region in particular. Although he pretends to be a tourist, he is in fact a millionaire, planning to invest billions."

ALL: Millionaire!? To us!? To invest!? Incredible! Unbelievable! Billions?! And to us?!

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