Russian Tsar Era Classics — The Government Inspector, Part 2, by Nikolai Gogol
Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices.
A dramatized performance by the KacheliTV cast, in a fresh English translation made for this recording.
Part 2 of 2.
A small provincial town is thrown into panic by the news that a government inspector is coming — incognito. The Mayor and every official in town have something to hide, and when a penniless young traveller from the capital is mistaken for the dreaded inspector, they fall over themselves to bribe, flatter and feast him. Ivan Khlestakov, a nobody with a vivid imagination, rises to the occasion magnificently — until the real inspector is announced. Gogol's comedy of fear, vanity and corruption has been delighting and stinging audiences since 1836, and it has lost none of its bite.
The Acts
00:00 Act Four — every official and petitioner comes to pay court — and to pay
0:50:18 Act Five — triumph, a betrothal, a letter read aloud — and a gendarme at the door
Theme music: "Bandoneo_n_Street_Romance" (instrumental), heard between the acts and at the close. No music plays under the narration.
Source: Nikolai Gogol, «Ревизор» (The Government Inspector), first performed and published in 1836 — public domain. Russian text via ilibrary.ru. Translated fresh into English for KacheliTV; no existing translation was used. The cast: Lulu (narrator), Orson (the Mayor), Felix (Khlestakov), Scratch (Osip), Magnolia (Anna Andreyevna), Violetta (Marya Antonovna), and the KacheliTV company.
