Book description
The news that a government inspector is due to arrive in a small
Russian town sends its bureaucrats into a panicked frenzy. A simple
case of mistaken identity exposes the hypocrisy and corruption at the
heart of the town in this biting moral satire. David Harrower's
version of Nikolai Gogol's Government Inspector premiered at the
Warwick Arts Centre in May 2011 and transferred to Young Vic, London
in June.
David Harrower's plays include Knives in Hens (Traverse, 1995), Kill
the Old, Torture Their Young (Traverse, 1998), Presence (Royal Court,
2001) and Dark Earth (Traverse, 2003). Adaptations/versions include The
Chrysalids (NT Connections, 1996), Six Characters in Search of an Author
(Young Vic, 2001), Woyzeck (Edinburgh Lyceum, 2001), Ivanov (National
Theatre, 2002), The Girl on the Sofa (Edinburgh International
Festival/Schaubuhne, 2002), Purple (NT/Shell Connections, 2003) and
Tales from the Vienna Woods (National Theatre, 2003). Blackbird was
commissioned by the Edinburgh International Festival and premiered at
the King's Theatre, Edinburgh, in August 2005.
