Riotously over-the-top fun as The Government Inspector launches Chichester Festival Theatre summer

Riotously over-the-top fun as The Government Inspector launches Chichester Festival Theatre summer

The Government Inspector by Nikolai Gogol in a new adaptation by Phil Porter, directed by Gregory Doran, Chichester Festival Theatre until Saturday, May 24.

Review: The Government Inspector - Chichester Festival Theatre - In-Common - Southampton

By Graham Hiley. If you thought Fawlty Towers was ahead of its time, just imagine the reaction 139 years earlier when Nikolai Gogol’s The Government Inspector hit the stage! It would be wrong to say it follows the same premise as the 1975 classic episode the Hotel Inspectors because Gogol’s masterpiece was written in 1836. And Phil Porter’s clever adaptation at Chichester Festival Theatre, shows it is still as fresh and funny and every bit as re…

THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR review by thespyinthestalls

THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR Chichester Festival Theatre ★★★★ “brims with swearing, colloquialisms, double entendres, and joyful absurdity” Nikolai Gogol’s razor-sharp satire The Government Inspector gets a bawdy and riotous reimagining in this new adaptation by Phil Porter, directed with pantomimic glee by Gregory Doran in his Chichester debut. Fuelled by farcical energy, the production is packed with verbal wit and physical comedy that rarely mis…