Word: gogol
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...audiences begin to equate their dutifulness with pleasure, and actors and directors tend to become bureaucratic keepers of tinier and tinier dramatic flames. That may be why the Stratford players perform best in a 19th century provincial satire, The Government Inspector, almost as if the bizarre Russian genius Nikolai Gogol had jolted them with a shock of local recognition...
...play-and the role-could hardly be more distant from Scofield's last two productions, Shakespeare's Timon of Athens and Gogol's The Government Inspector. Staircase is an offbeat black comedy about a homosexual "marriage"; Scofield plays a middle-aged barber; his partner is Patrick Magee, who played Sade in the London and Broadway companies of Marat /Sade...
Smith bowed finally to the demand that his group go back to Mississippi and lay the proper groundwork for an agency grant. For, while the capital camp-in smacked of a Gogol comedy, the plight of the Delta Negroes, evicted from their sharecroppers' homes after they struck cotton plantations last year, was indeed tragic-and hardly likely to improve without federal help...
...Charles Playhouse would certainly deserve praise just for avoiding these pitfalls, for giving us an amusing and coherent Inspector General. But it has done more than that. It has taken the trouble to understand and explain Gogal, to let the ridiculously funny situations arise from the characters Gogol has created. The result is a biting portrait of rural Russia and an evening of theatre that is pure...
...also his. Robert Bolt, who wrote the screenplays for Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago, and who wrote the play A Man for All Seasons, is now cranking up the screenplay for Seasons, which will star Scofield-as soon as Actor Scofield completes his London stage run in Gogol's The Government Inspector. Tony Richardson, who directed the film Tom Jones, also directed John Osborne's play Luther. Tom Courtenay, who starred in The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner -which Tony Richardson directed-played Pasha in Zhivago, will go back into rep this summer. Albert Finney...