The Government Inspector

Mel Brooks meets Robert Mueller? In a small Russian village, the Mayor and his cabinet are in a panic. Rumor has it that a government inspector is on his way to root out corruption. Now it’s every man, woman, and child for themselves as they try to cover their tracks before they all get sent to Siberia.
Mother Russia was never so funny as in this modern adaptation of Gogol’s classic farce. Witty, smart, and wildly satirical, Hatcher’s play “mines all the silly and pretentious insanity that defines bureaucratic crooks” [Huffington Post] This adaptation premiered in 2008 at the Guthrie Theater and opened in New York in 2017.