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Drama Inspector General in Shanghai

Date: Aug 12-13 - 7:15 pm

Venue: Shanghai Grand Theater - Lyric Theater

Price: 160-680 yuan

Valery Fokin, who addresses Inspector General for the third time so far, is rightfully considered one of the best experts in the N.V. Gogol's creative legacy. It was exactly on this stage that the immortal Gogol's comedy was presented for the first time on April 19, 1836, and N.V.Gogol himself took an active part in the staging of that legendary play. Present production is the tenth Alexandrinsky version of Inspector General. In the stage, musicality of compositional and plastic action structure, elegance of compositional and plastic pattern, Russia is shown here not only as a satirical portrayal of the conditional 19th century, but also as a more realistic picture drawing Russia in general, the way it was in the 19th century, depicted similarly in the 21st century.