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...underground, a fact that leads to an explosive and tragic finale. Director Jifi Menzel mixes the real and the surreal, ribaldry and pathos, comedy and tragedy-yet keeps the movie on the track all the way. Much credit goes to Actors Somr and Neckar, who straight-facedly exemplify Gogol's view that "what is utterly absurd happens in the world...
STRATFORD FESTIVAL, Stratford, Ontario. Until Oct. 14, Canadians and visitors will get a taste of Russian humor in Nikolai Gogol's The Government Inspector, with The Merry Wives of Windsor providing the Anglo-Saxon comedy. Richard 111, played by Alan Bates, represents a somewhat darker strain. On July 31, Christopher Plummer appears as Antony, with Zoe Caldwell as his Cleopatra. A new play, James Reaney's Colours in the Dark, debuts July...
...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...