In this play's third act, one character delivers a drunken monologue in which he claims to have written The Marriage of Figaro, Robert le Diable, and Norma and taken charge of a huge department before he slips and nearly falls.
In this play's third act, one character delivers a drunken monologue in which he claims to have written The Marriage of Figaro, Robert le Diable, and Norma and taken charge of a huge department before he slips and nearly falls. Meyerhold's 1926 production of this play replaced all of its characters with mannequins for its final stage direction, which requires its characters to stay frozen in place for ninety seconds. In its final scene, one of its characters shakes his fist at the audience and exclaims "What are you laughing at? You're laughing at yourselves!" The protagonist of this play shamelessly flirts with Anna and her daughter Marya after being discovered by Bobchinsky and Dobchinsky. Its climax occurs when a postmaster opens a letter roundly mocking all of its main characters, who all offer bribes to Khlestakov. For 10 points, name this play in which the corrupt members of a provincial town mistakenly believe that Khlestakov is the title official, a comedy by Nikolai Gogol.
In this play's third act, one character delivers a drunken monologue in which he claims to have written The Marriage of Figaro, Robert le Diable, and Norma and taken charge of a huge department before he slips and nearly falls.
The Inspector General [or The Government Inspector; or Revizor]